Sam Altman says AI will destroy many jobs but create new ones. His advice: get really good with these tools, the way people learned programming decades ago. There will be work, just different kinds.
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Oh man, this is going to change things so much and this is going to make like a lot of the jobs of today go away. And to me the most obvious thing was, well, if that's the case, I better like get really good at using this tool and if that's the thing that's going to have this big impact. And I think the story on computer programming has been a huge net positive. It has made some classes of jobs go away. It's made way more new things happen and also given us the ability to do a lot of new things.
But it was like in retrospect that was a really good decision that I should get very comfortable with that tool. I think the same thing is true now. You want to get really comfortable with these new tools because we don't know exactly what the jobs of the future are going to look like. I'm confident that there will be lots of jobs and also that many of them will look somewhat different than the jobs of today. But we never seem to run out of stuff to do.