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What Demis Hassabis thinks about AI and jobs

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Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and a 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for the protein-structure work behind AlphaFold.

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  1. Our readingAI will not replace the best programmers; it will make them ten times more productive than they are today.

    Their wordsSo the great programmers will be even better, but there'll be even 10X even what they are today. And because there, you'll be able to use their skills to utilize the tools to the maximum, exploit them to the maximum.

    ↗Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games | Lex Fridman Podcast #475youtube.com 15th of 20 in this recording

  3. Our readingThe productivity AI creates should be shared out as a universal basic provision, with rare skills still buying you more than that.

    Their wordsIncluding things like universal basic provision or something like that where a lot of the increased productivity gets shared out and distributed to society and maybe in the form of services and other things where if you want more than that, you still go and get some incredibly rare skills and things like that and make yourself unique. But there's a basic provision that is provided.

    ↗Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games | Lex Fridman Podcast #475youtube.com 17th of 20 in this recording