Zack Kass

First of all, it's funny, we basically debated naming the book Unmetered Intelligence, which I think would have been better sticky IP, but it is much less approachable.

And so like if I wrote another book tomorrow, I'd write on metered intelligence and I would sort of expand on the ideas in the first one.

The point of the next renaissance is actually I wrote it for my mom.

I wrote the book for everyone on earth right now, the educated lay person who is desperately trying to make sense of this moment and for whom there are very few tools.

And my mom's a well-educated woman who just doesn't know a whole lot about AI and there are a lot of these people.

And sort of what I lay out in it are some complex ideas, one of which is unmetered intelligence, the theory that intelligence is in fact just a resource, and like water and foodstuffs and electricity and the internet before it, it will go from very scarce to very abundant.

it's very hard to compete on a basis of electricity anymore, right?

Like owning the utility matters, but like you can't actually go out and raise money to say, I have access to more electricity unless you are literally building the power plant.

And my argument here is sort of the same, which is that intelligence will go the way of these resources.

And that when we commoditize and utilize things, good things happen.

My net bet is that the world gets a lot better

because we are making the cost of this critical resource so cheap.

And if you argue, and I do, that we measure the human experience on basically human progress on two axes, how free are we to pursue our own version of joy and how inexpensive is it to do so?

On one axis, you need governments to protect freedoms and personal liberties, and on the other, you need private market to drive the cost of goods and services down through technological innovation and utilitization.

The path that AI is on is basically the best evidence that I can make that we're commoditizing, utilitizing a critical resource.

What happens when we arrive at unmetered intelligence, that's up to us, and I mean us sort of collectively, cities, states, governments, or countries, and communities, and a bunch of upside and a bunch of downside, and we sort of lay all that out in the book.

So I think the way we describe the next renaissance in the book from a work standpoint, well, first we explain it from a work standpoint.

So we say, look, here's some things that are going to happen as it relates to the future of work.

And we spell out the jobs that are more likely to automate on a technical basis.

And we spell out the jobs that are more likely to augment on a technical basis.