Tyler Cowen

I have no plans to retire.

But if I had to retire...

I could just do so.

So I don't feel I face any risk.

I can experiment with it, try new things without a truly significant downside.

But if I were, say, 20 years old, 25 years old, I would be highly uncertain about my future career plans.

I wouldn't be sure what to do.

I would do what you probably advise people to do, which is to get to know the AIs.

and stay flexible, and then just see.

But that's a somewhat uncomfortable position to be in, even if someone tells you, well, the world will have a lot more wealth, and you'll live to be 97, so don't worry.

It's still an uncomfortable position to be in.

Strong agree.

The whole system is set up to incentivize getting good grades.

And that's exactly the skill that will be obsolete.

Yet our institutions of education, I don't see that they're changing at any level whatsoever.

There's a lot of hand-wringing about how do we stop people from cheating and no look at what should we actually be teaching and testing.

Exactly.

And it means admitting that homework is obsolete, that the easy ways of grading people, like computer graded exams, they're obsolete.

Faculty teachers need to be more like mentors.

That can be rewarding, but it's very time intensive.