Vlad Tenev

If the questions I'm hearing on the podcast circuit are any indication, the average 20-year-old today also has quite a bit of fear.

But this time, emerging technology is not the antidote to that fear.

It's the source.

And they're asking themselves, will that career I'm looking at even be around in 10 years?

Will humans still be writing computer software?

Will we even be writing books?

And I think one reason why it feels different this time is because AI, unlike the iPhone, is the first tool that we've built that's capable of leaving the toolbox, and we don't yet know its limits.

A few years ago, I founded another company with the mission to build mathematical superintelligence.

That's an artificial intelligence that can reason and solve problems better than any mathematician.

You know, when I grew up, I always thought of mathematics as the pinnacle of human intellectual activity.

If you could solve math problems, you could do pretty much anything.

So, a superhuman AI at mathematics

could potentially be superhuman at everything.

And that's a bit of a scary thought.

So when you think about that, and I combine that with my day job, which is running a global financial services platform, it's led to me spending a lot of time pondering one very important question.

What do we do in a world where the vast majority of today's jobs are gone?

And I want to analyze this question rationally, without fear and hyperbole.

One way to do it is to look back through history and see if there's been a time where we faced this type of job disruption before at anything near these levels, and how we as humans have navigated it.

I should...

say one thing.