In this interview segment, Victor Cho discusses the transformative potential of AI agents, framing the current moment as the very early stage of a multi‑decade evolution. He argues that AI has unlocked the ability to embed intelligence and reasoning into computing systems, which will soon be offered as services—agents, bots, robots—accessible to anyone. By automating purely transactional tasks, these agents can free human time for health, exercise, and deeper social relationships, moving more people up Maslow’s hierarchy toward self‑actualization. Cho highlights the importance of authentic human connection for longevity, noting that AI can both free up time and, through tools like Amovit—a system that enables simultaneous, authentic face‑to‑face interactions with many people—enhance our capacity for meaningful social engagement.
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AI and using it in a way where the first-order, second-order effects were for the benefit of everybody? How can we do that? What would that take to get us there?
Yeah, I love that question because it has an optimism at its core, right? That this time we free up will be used for us to have these interactions. So I think that world looks similar to what you've described, right? It's clear that the agent— we're at the earliest stage of AI, right? I tell people we're at day one of 10,000 days, 1,000 days. The functionality is going to evolve so rapidly. But we have created the most important technology I think we'll ever create. Maybe not ever. We have created the most important technology I think we will have created up until this point in time, which is we have untapped what intelligence and reasoning is in a computing system, right? We're now going to make that available to the world. So yeah, you unleash that onto the planet and every product has As a service that can be consumed by everyone, anyone building a solution, right? Technology as agents, as bots, as robots, right? That's coming over the next 30, 40, 50 years. Yeah, in that world, I think in terms of our relationship with humanity, yeah, I think it comes back to this line. There is a ton of stuff that is very inefficient. It really is a waste of death. These useless things that are just purely transactional at their core, they're not really building relationship and computers can do them way better. Yes. Wonderful. Let's take all of that and get that off of our plate and free up time for us to do the things that actually make us vibrant and healthy human beings. So get out and exercise more and be healthier for sure. Hopefully we can work a little bit less, achieve more, tap into Maslow's hierarchy and actually get more people into the self-actualization top of the pyramid. And absolutely spend more time building deeper social connections. Relationships and people, this is, I think, I had this learning deeply grabbed into my head from Evite. It's maybe even more important than like working out and eating well in terms of your longevity and your health, right? We are social creatures at our core. We need to build these deep connections. We can't delegate that to systems and it takes time and it takes energy. So any technology that we can use that either gives us time to do that, or in the case of Amovit, I call Amovit a superpower because it allows you to Suddenly interact face-to-face authentically with hundreds of people simultaneously in parallel threads. Like, that was impossible before the world of AI. Systems like this that can enhance it, I think, are going to be very powerful.
