Stuart Russell

we're going to suffer the consequences, right?

We can't, it was bad enough in the industrial revolution, which unfolded over seven or eight decades, but there was massive disruption and misery caused by that.

We don't have a model for a functioning society where almost everyone does nothing, at least nothing of economic value.

Now, it's not impossible that there could be such a functioning society, but we don't know what it looks like.

And when you think about our education system, which would probably have to look very different.

And how long it takes to change that.

I mean, I'm always reminding people about how long it took Oxford to decide that geography was a proper subject of study.

It took them 125 years from the first proposal that there should be a geography degree until it was finally approved.

So we don't have very long to completely revamp a system that we know takes decades and decades to

to reform, and we don't know how to reform it because we don't know what we want the world to look like.

I would say it's not necessarily the job of the AI companies.

So I'm appalled by the AI companies because they don't have an answer for how they're going to control the systems that they're proposing to build.

I do find it

disappointing that uh governments don't seem to be grappling with this issue i think there are a few i think for example singapore government seems to be quite farsighted and they've they've thought this through you know it's a small country they've figured out okay this this will be our role uh going forward and we think we can find you know some some purpose for our people in this in this new world but for i think countries with large populations um

They need to figure out answers to these questions pretty fast.

It takes a long time to actually implement those answers in the form of new kinds of education, new professions, new qualifications, new economic structures.

I mean, it's possible.

When you look at therapists, for example, they're almost all self-employed.

So what happens when 80% of the population transitions from regular employment into self-employment?

What does that do to the economics of government finances and so on?