Vlad Tenev

And this creates the market for the ever-improving set of innovations that save us time and money.

So with AI, maybe it's not the job disruption itself that makes us so nervous, but the speed with which it's happening and the acceleration.

Maybe that's what makes us nervous.

So why don't we accelerate?

We're going to go right through the Industrial Revolution into the modern era.

So in the 20th century, a young person

in the wake of companies expanding and automating, there was a lot of change, would have found an entirely new menu of jobs that their parents never had access to.

So instead of working in a factory, they would have had the selection of a wide assortment of new office jobs.

And some of the parents were probably thinking, you sit in a chair all day.

That's not real work.

Now, let's go through the Internet era.

Most of us have lived through at least a portion of this, and we see all around us jobs that didn't exist before.

Some of us are probably in them, maybe most of us.

I know I am.

So where does all this leave our 20-year-old at the dawn of the AI era?

One feature

that we found is recurrent throughout generations is this feeling of exceptionalism.

We'd like to think that somehow we're at a discontinuity where history ends and we're in a new world with no precedent.

And maybe it's true this time.

We really don't know if we're building a super assistant or an apex predator.