Tyler Cowen

And if someone imagines that at some point robots do the brain surgery better, well, fine.

But I'm not convinced that's within the next 10 years.

That would surprise me.

It's probably true, but I would add as an interpretation, the value of meta-rationality has gone up.

So to date, we have not selected doctors for their ability to work with AI, obviously, but some doctors have the personal quality.

It's quite distinct from intelligence, but of just knowing when they should defer to someone or something else.

And those doctors and researchers will become much more valuable.

They're sufficiently modest to defer to the AI and have some judgment as to when they should do that.

That's now a super important quality.

Over time, I hope our doctors have much more of that.

They are selected on that basis.

And then that result won't be true anymore.

Well, any change that big, one should have very real concerns.

Maybe our biggest concern is that we're not sure what our biggest concern should be.

one simple effect that I see coming soon is it will devalue the status of a lot of our intellectuals and what's called our chattering class, sometimes called the word cells.

A lot of it's people like us.

We won't seem so impressive anymore.

Now, that's not the end of the world for everyone as a whole, but if you ask what does it mean for society to have the status of its elites so punctured,

at a time when we have some, I would say, very negative forces attacking those elites in other ways, that to me is very concerning.

Well, the Trump people are very pro-AI.