Will AI take our jobs? | Sam Altman and Lex Fridman

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Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, DALL-E, Codex, and many other state-of-the-art AI technologies.

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[LexClips]

Guest bio: Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, DALL-E, Codex, and many other state-of-the-art AI technologies.

[Pabz]

The future of Humanity is either one of complete leisure or complete annihilation

[chungang]

His shallow answers to this question have me more worried about the future than what AI will do on its own. Companies and CEOs will leap at the chance to remove entire categories of jobs across the spectrum if it saves them money, and so AI has the potential to simply transfer more wealth to the 1% rather than helping everyone else. This was his chance to address that worry, instead he spoke of a utopia like in Star Trek where the challenge was to improve oneself because material needs are no longer an issue. I'd love to live in that world, but for him to think some kind of paradigm change is going to be ushered in like it ain't no thang is amusing, and mostly terrifying.

[daveryan]

This dude is like the least confident Bond villain.

[rerawho]

Much of Sams comments about better, higher paying, more fulfilling jobs and people being confused about whether they want to work more or less etc., is from the mind of a man that has never worked in the blue collar realm. The very people he works for will make sure jobs do not meet any of the criteria he speaks of. The average worker has been devalued over the decades and will be further devalued as A.I. becomes a new person in the same sense that corporations have been given the status of person in America. The average worker will further spiral down to the equivalent of a slightly paid slave with no rights.

[verygoodfreelancer]

i like that it’s so clear sam altman is describing a wealth transfer to fewer and fewer individuals lol

[therongertz]

I’m sorry, but this man is spouting utter nonsense. I appreciate the sentiment about UBI & Democratic socialism, but to think that employers will pay people MORE when ChatGPT does most of a person’s job is ludicrous. Automation did not lead to higher paying jobs for most working people, it just removed a lot of good-paying jobs that didn’t require at least a bachelor’s degree to get. People are not confused about whether they want to work more or less, they are TERRIFIED that they won’t have enough to live off of. AI hasn’t fixed everything yet; the wealth gap has never been higher, wages have lagged WAY behind inflation, & most Americans are getting DESTROYED by medical debt, or will be soon. You have nice ideas, but your AI system will very likely do the opposite of what you’re predicting. Get out of Silicon Valley & live among real people for a minute & you would see that.

[Patrickstarrrrr]

Basically A LOT of people are going to be uprooted and told to “adapt or die” while a few at the top get rich and get to play god

[craigedwards]

Sam is kinda detached from the average person. We work because we have bills and not because we like to work.

[verygoodfreelancer]

watching this bc AI already took my animation job lol they are used by higher ups to replace positions, not by people in those “positions” to be more productive lol

[codypace]

This guys seems very comfortable with all this. Almost like he’s in charge of the direction AI is going in 🙃

[harackmw]

I find it more unsettling that he has convinced himself CEOs and companies will not use AI to replace people's jobs in the short term BEFORE this wonderful world he is speaking of comes to fruition. That, or he simply does not care.

[fritsgerms]

That's the only problem with AI that I see. It makes all of us obsolete eventually. Once the AI can train, test, improve itself (unlimited scope) these researchers are jobless too. Now they might think they will never allow a AI to have such power, but it only takes one to to do it. Then the rest will need to follow.

[kingdagami]

I live in a country where hundreds of thousands(maybe millions) of people work in customer service industry. The fact that Sam Altman casually speaks about customer service workers being replaced by ai is scary to me. The chaos that those job loses would create in my country is hard to swallow or accept.

[dondecaire]

The more I hear him talk the more I think he is not worried at all about the fallout, he is seeking catastrophe so he and those like him can rebuild the world the way they want it. He has his own world view and is using this paradigm shift to get there, despite the inherent DANGER he is putting everyone else in. He is the conductor of the train that has just went off the rails and he is calmly telling people there is nothing to worry about.

[frilanstranslator]

The economic crisis due to AI that is coming will be massive. You know he is trying to minimize the alarm, but you can also see that he's slightly smiling. He doesn't give a fuck, he is just happy that he is the CEO of it. I understand why he feels like that. But he doesn't understand what he is about to do to hundreds of millions of families. Brace yourselves. It's going to be cold.

[alexjbriiones]

Lex, the difficult thing for us to see is that AI will grow exponentially. So, if you ask Sam, what are some of the jobs that will go away? His response is always linear. A one-time thing, but in fact, it will be progressively more so and a lot worse over time. But it is true that other jobs will be created, but fewer.

[spacebunyip]

I work in operational risk management and I see AI chat systems replacing written policies - employees will write the description of what scenario they’re facing and the AI chat system produces the options for how to proceed, sme contacts, associated controls, etc.

[evilmac]

"Automation has the potential to eliminate 73 million US jobs by 2030, which would equate to a staggering 46% of the current jobs." The google robot told me that.

[AndyChamberlainMusic]

"we as a society are confused about whether we want to work more or work less" is incredibly out of touch wow