Live: Anthropic co-founder on AI and jobs

“By April 2027, AI systems should be able to do tasks that might take a person a hundred and fifty hours. Now about what is that? That's almost a month's worth of work, which it requires strange things to happen in the economy. Yeah.”

“When new candidate products are found, it runs through a series of tuned expert systems. If it passes these tests, then a candidate product is produced, airlifted by drone to a nearby human focus group, and if it satisfies their criteria, is sold on an eBay like auction site frequented by the factory's thousands of distributors.”

“I think if you end up in a world where you have a closed loop production system with just machine to machine to machine to machine, and then people buy stuff, People need money, well established. So you need to tax the robots and AI companies, significantly, and you need to somehow find a way to reallocate money from this machine economy to the human economy.”

“The fiction stories are where I'm basically trying to grapple with what's happening and my moral and ethical responsibility in it. So you can read them, and I view it as like messages in a bottle I'm trying to throw out of this, semi frightening AI lab, which I'm I'm a principal character in.”

“So I think a good metaphor for the housing market is musical chairs. Like, the people who already own houses are sitting in their chairs and whenever there's a new spring housing market, some people get up and they move and they select a new chair. And if you're not adding more chairs in, you can't get first time homebuyers into the market so easily.”