Stuart Russell
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first heard Dec 2018
last heard 24 Jun
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And some companies are investing in AI to make their operations more efficient.
and some are not, and we'll see how that plays out.
What do you think of Trump's approach to AI?
So Trump's approach is, you know, it's echoing what Jensen Huang is saying, that the US has to be the one to create AGI.
And very explicitly, the administration's policy is to dominate the world.
That's the word they use, dominate.
I'm not sure that other countries like the idea that they will be dominated by American AI.
Yeah, and it's interesting because...
In fact, I mean, so there's two forces that have been hollowing out the middle classes in Western countries.
One of them is globalization, where lots and lots of work, not just manufacturing, but white-collar work gets outsourced to low-income countries.
But the other is automation.
And, you know, some of that is factories.
So the amount of employment in manufacturing continues to drop, even as the amount of output from manufacturing in the US and in the UK continues to increase.
So we talk about, oh, you know, our manufacturing industry has been destroyed.
It hasn't.
It's producing more than ever, just with, you know, a quarter as many people.
So it's manufacturing employment that's been destroyed by automation and robotics and so on.
And then, you know, computerization has eliminated whole layers of white-collar jobs.
And so those two forms of automation have probably done more to hollow out middle-class employment and standard of life.
So yes, I mean, this is, so I was in India a few months ago,
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