Rory Stewart

So, I mean, here's, I guess, here's something that's a little bit of optimism in this or something.

So the world will be getting enormously richer over this time period.

And I actually differ.

Won't be shared well.

Well, so there'll be this one-off redistribution before extraordinarily intense concentration because robots are lagging behind.

I'm laughing because I know what I'm about to say.

So, okay, at the moment, robots are lagging quite far behind AI for cognitive skills.

And this is because when it comes to evolution and how much time evolution has to optimize our brains, well, science is just very new.

It's not at all what we've evolved for.

But doing fine motor coordination, me picking up this glass and putting it down, that is extraordinarily complex what I just did.

It doesn't feel like it because it's so second nature to us.

It's just, it's all built into our brains from evolution.

And moreover, the robots don't exist.

So we can't actually build the equivalent of a human hand in terms of just how fine our kind of touch perception is.

And so over the period that we're moving from AI that we have now to AI that far exceeds kind of human cognitive capabilities, there will be complementarity between that AI and human workers.

If only, I think this is for many reasons, but if only because we are able to act in the world and we have these fine motor skills and the robots haven't yet been built.

And so this means there'll be this period, which is just a one-off gain where wages for humans will go much, much higher.

because we are able to go and build the robots that will then replace ourselves.

And so we'll have, you know, so we can use, you can use your phone.

It has a camera, it has an audio.