Stuart Russell

I mean, it's amazing that I can take a little rectangular thing out of my pocket and talk to someone on the other side of the world or even someone in space.

It's just astonishing.

And we can take it for granted.

But imagine super intelligent beings and their ability to control physics.

Perhaps they will find a way to just divert the sun's energy, sort of go around the Earth's orbit.

So literally the Earth turns into a snowball in a few days.

They might, yeah.

So it's difficult to anticipate all the ways that we might go extinct at the hands of entities much more intelligent than ourselves.

Anyway, coming back to the question of, well, if everything goes right, if we create AGI, we figure out how to make it safe,

we achieve all these economic miracles, then you face a problem.

And this is not a new problem, right?

So John Maynard Keynes, who was a famous economist in the early part of the 20th century, wrote a paper in 1930.

So this is in the depths of the Depression.

It's called On the Economic Problems of Our Grandchildren.

He predicts that at some point, science will

will deliver sufficient wealth that no one will have to work ever again.

And then man will be faced with his true eternal problem.

How to live, I don't remember the exact word, but how to live wisely and well when the economic incentives, the economic constraints are lifted.

We don't have an answer to that question, right?

So AI systems are doing pretty much everything we currently call work.