AI Expert: Why AI Doomsday Is Overhyped

[on-hold music] Okay, Zach, uh, so much hype out there about AI, and we're gonna dive in.

But right out of the gate, will AI make most white-collar workers unnecessary, or is it gonna make us more valuable?

Uh, can you define unnecessary?

[laughs] Meaning you don't need a job.

They don't need you.

Let's put it that way.

One, I, I struggle with this definition of white collar versus blue collar, uh, knowledge work versus non-knowledge work.

But if, if the question bluntly is, will most of the work we do today be automated at some point by machines, or can it be? The answer is yes, it could be, probably at the current rate.

Then there's a bigger question, which is, will it be? This is, this is-- we can go into this, but this is the theory of technological thresholds.

What can a machine do versus societal thresholds? What do we want a machine to do?

Yeah, that's a key distinction, so let's go there.

Well-

It's the can it be versus will it be.

But then I still wanna answer something that you asked sort of implicitly, which is, um, y-you, you used the word unnecessary.

Yes, on purpose.