Zack Kass

Jobs changing doesn't have an economic consequence the way it does an emotional one.

And that is actually the crisis we are tracking towards.

The greatest sacrifice that our generation will pay vis-a-vis AI is extricating who we are from what we do, because what we do will change so much and so frequently.

For a lot of people right now, the scary part is that a new technology will show up and they'll be like, wait, maybe I should do that job.

I've arrived now at a place where I firmly believe we are going to house people, we are going to feed people, we are going to educate people.

And the hardest part is going to be figuring out why are we here?

Thanks so much for having me, Alana.

I grew up in Santa Barbara, where I am now.

And I was not a very good student.

I played volleyball in high school and then went to Berkeley.

Got in basically because of volleyball and ended up studying history and then added computer science.

And sort of as I grew up, figured out that school mattered as like a means to get to the next level.

And spent a bunch of time...

in college reinforcing what I had grown up knowing, which is that the world was a great place.

And then I found evidence to defend that position.

And that's important because it sets the stage for the rest of my career.

I graduated Berkeley and I tried to make a career of volleyball, couldn't do that.

went and got a job at the only company that would hire me at the time, which is a company called CrowdFlower, which became figure eight and was the early data labeling company.

We were the first company to build human labeled data at machine scale for the purposes of building these better models.

That gave me this incredible view into early machine learning.