Sam Harris

Whether you believe that he's earned $1 billion or $4 billion, depending on whose estimate you trust at this point, he has just sold out our country every which way he could so as to profit and to have his family and friends profit.

What do you make of that?

Well, so I know Mustafa a little bit.

Very nice guy.

And obviously he's very close to this work.

I mean, he came from DeepMind.

He was one of the founders of DeepMind and moved over to Microsoft.

So I think his prognostications are probably as credible as anybody's at this point.

It's pretty alarming when you think of the societal implications.

In a year, we have the complete cancellation of the need for human cognition of the white-collar type.

I don't know how many people that is, but it's a lot of people.

And it's basically...

certainly most of the high status jobs, right?

I mean, one of the ironies and surprises here is that the robots are coming for the lawyers and doctors and software engineers before they're coming for the janitors and massage therapists and nurses and plumbers.

And so if you went to college and incurred $200,000 in debt and that degree enabled you to get to the rung on the ladder where you're currently standing,

it's very likely that part of the ladder is in the process of disappearing, right?

And the entire ladder, Mustafa's saying that the ladder itself is evaporating.

So what he's saying now is in principle already true of the bottom rung.

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