Vlad Tenev

They'd say, we don't have any more jobs.

and I bet that we would feel the same about our descendants in the future.

So now what?

We've shown that there's going to be lots of jobs to choose from, some would argue too many, and that the jobs, along with the flurry of new entrepreneurial activity, will likely look like leisure to us.

much like our jobs did to our ancestors.

And I can tell you with near certainty that a humanity that's capable of building a super intelligent AI also has the creativity to navigate through this potential job doom and gloom scenario.

Although we'll never stop worrying about it.

We'll never stop worrying about it because being hyper vigilant about threats to our survival

is a key part of our survival mechanism, also a key part of evolution, what makes us human.

And although it'll take a lot of time to go into what kind of jobs are future-proofed, I can tell you that you shouldn't take predictions about future job disruption to keep you from doing something you feel very passionately about.

You know, when I was a kid, in the 90s,

Teachers discouraged me from becoming a computer programmer.

I don't know if many else heard this, but back then, it was a common thought that all those jobs would be shipped off to China.

Around the same time, if you guys remember, 1997, Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in chess.

That was the first time an AI succeeded in what was considered a solely human intellectual affair.

But now, the chess industry is booming bigger than ever.

So, even where it seems obvious, sometimes our predictions of the future end up being completely off.

Humanity has always excelled at providing itself with meaning and purpose, even in the darkest and most uncertain of times.

So if I had to guess,

I feel very, very confident that the 20-year-olds of the future, perhaps in collaboration with AI, will continue to build new things which simultaneously we're going to be scared of but also excited by.