Carlo CocuzziAI Expert, Pod Cast Host, Real Estate Investor and Funding Specialist

The Two Types of People AI Will Create

1 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this talk, the speaker warns that as AI increasingly handles complex tasks, humanity will split into two groups: "creators" who harness AI to amplify their ambitions and produce new content, and "consumers" who become passive, letting AI fulfill their needs without personal effort. The speaker emphasizes that this division is not inevitable; it hinges on how we educate young people. If individuals accept limited expectations set by family or community, they risk complacency as AI does the work for them. Conversely, by fostering a mindset of massive transformative purpose—setting moonshot goals far beyond current expectations—and leveraging AI as a powerful tool, people can continuously raise their aspirations, from building starships to exploring new frontiers. The talk frames the future as a choice between a "WALL‑E" scenario of passive consumption and a "Star Trek" scenario of ambitious exploration, urging society to grapple with this decision now.

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As AI takes over more of the difficult tasks, how do we keep people from getting complacent and losing their goals? This is the crux of the matter as AI is materializing. And as I've said before, we're going to have a split in humanity. We're going to have the creators and the consumers, those that just are going to use AI to create new content, to uplevel their ambitions, and those that are going to lay back and choose to just, you know, have their Optimus bring them their beer and have Grok Imagine generate the next version of Netflix. For them, and it's going to be a choice. We're not going to be able to keep people from getting complacent, losing their goals. People are going to have to choose to do that. And I think one of the most important things is how we educate our youth. If you believe that the best you can do is at certain, certain level that was set by your community, by your parents and your family, and AI can do all that for you, then you're stuck. If you believe that anything is possible, if you set your massive transformative purpose and your moonshots way beyond your expectations and you start to utilize this extraordinary gift we've been of AGI and soon ASI, then you can uplevel those goals. And if you set higher and higher goals and you use the technology, you can keep yourself inspired and building starships to go to the planets. Do you choose the WALL-E future or Star Trek future? I think that's something that we all need to grapple with.