In a world with strong AI, there's a kind of moral nervousness that sets in.

So I'm much more likely to tell people, like, hey, you'd better fasten your seatbelt.

Like, you don't want to miss out on what's coming, how many years you might live.

Suppose I tell you that AI is going to create 50% unemployment.

Half of the people in the workforce will lose their jobs.

That sounds terrible.

You know, that's catastrophic.

Suppose whoever that I tell you that the work week will be cut in half.

People will do half as much work.

That actually sounds glorious.

You know, that sounds great.

And yet, these are almost the same thing.

The problem with social media isn't that it stores information.

The problem is that it stores information instead of you storing the information.

Every time you screenshot something instead of thinking,

every time you share instead of reflecting,

you are training yourself to be a little more hollow.

One of the biggest questions surrounding AI is what happens to work.

Will increasingly capable systems eliminate jobs, create new ones, or fundamentally change

the relationship between labor, productivity, and economic growth?

Economist Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarach take a long view.

Looking across centuries of technological change,

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