Elon Musk went back on with Joe Rogan
and made some comments about how
nobody’s gonna work anymore in the
future. Let’s go ahead and take a listen
to that.
Cars are um cars are going to be
autonomous. Um, but there there’s just
so many desk desk jobs where where
really people what people are doing is
they’re processing email um or they’re
answering the phone. Um, and and just
anything that is that that isn’t moving
atoms like anything that is not
physically like doing physical work that
will obviously be the first thing those
jobs will be and are being eliminated by
by AI at a very rapid pace. Um
um
and ultimately
I working will be optional
uh because you’ll have robots plus AI
um and we’ll have in a benign scenario
universal high income not just universal
basic income universal high income
meaning anyone can have any products or
services that they want. So you
but but there will be a lot of chroma
and disruption along the way.
So you anticipate a basic income from
that that the economy will boost to such
an extent that a high income would be
available to almost everybody. So we’d
essentially eliminate poverty
um in the benign scenario. Yes. So like
the way
there’s multiple scenarios.
There are multiple scenarios. There’s a
lot of ways this movie can end. Um, like
the reason I’m so concerned about AI
safety is that like one of the
possibilities is the Terminator
scenario. It’s not it’s not 0%.
Um, so,
um, that’s why it’s like I’m like really
banging the drum on AI needs to be
maximally truth seeeking. like don’t
make I don’t force AI to believe a lie
like that for example the founding
fathers were actually a group of diverse
women or that misgendering is worth
nuclear war because you if if that’s the
case and then you get the robots and the
AI becomes omnipotent it can enforce
that outcome
and then
then like unless you’re a diverse woman
you’re you’re out of the picture so
we’re we’re toast So the benign scenario
is that all the jobs are gone.
Yes.
Then what did he call it? The what
scenario do you call it? Basically where
everyone’s dead. Yes. Is the other
scenario which he says there’s not a 0%
chance. Okay. Well, what percent are we
talking here? Not that he knows, right?
But if you talk to anyone who has been
deeply involved in this technology, none
of them will tell you that the like
absolutely apocalyptic scenario is 0%.
So we’re just rolling the dice. I mean,
even if it’s a one% a one in a 100
chance of complete human extinction, I
don’t for me that’s a too high of a
risk. I don’t want to take that chance,
right? That seems insane. And yet, you
know,
the terminator scenario, that’s
right. And and there’s a a bunch of I
mean, there’s a bunch of assumptions
here, too. He’s like, “Oh, well, you
know, there won’t be jobs anymore, but
you’re going to have a really high basic
income.” What indication do you have
that there’s any like likelihood of that
politically occurring?
