A short transcript excerpt featuring Dennis Yu arguing that fears of AI exterminating humanity are overblown; instead, AI will amplify human capabilities and reward skilled people who adopt it, while displacing those who don't. He cites Bill Gates' view that technology is an amplifier of existing human intentions and effectiveness.
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So Richard, people are freaking out about how AI is going to like kill everyone, Terminator matrix kind of stuff and most of that is just Hollywood noise. That's not going to happen. The calculators string a million of them together mile long are not going to suddenly wake up and just exterminate humanity. Here's what is going to happen. Smart people using AI will replace the dumb dumbs who don't. So the AI doesn't kill the jobs, it's smart people using the AI will. Why? Because here's the fundamental arc of technology. If you look back 30 something years every time there's been a new thing, the Internet, the spreadsheet, like whatever it is technology is nothing. And I learned this from Bill Gates who wrote the book the Road Ahead. He said technology is neither good nor evil, it is an amplifier of that good or evil you can use it to get 10 times more of whatever what's working.