Robert Ta asks people on the street if AI will kill us or steal our jobs. A Microsoft employee thinks job loss is likely. Most reference Terminator, The Matrix, and iRobot, suggesting sci-fi has shaped how we imagine AI's future.
Hey, yo, quick question. Do you think AI is going to kill us all or take our jobs?
No idea.
No idea. Okay. And yourself?
Probably take our jobs.
Probably take our jobs. What do you do for work? I'm a product manager for. Oh yeah? Cool. Okay. I've worked in product. Where do you work?
Work at Microsoft.
Microsoft. Okay. And are you like leaning into using AI or are you like worried about it replacing you?
I don't think I'm worried about it replacing me right now, but I do think I'm leaning into using it.
Cool. Like vibe coding, prototyping or. Not necessarily just PRDs and stuff. Okay, cool. Do you like using the tools so far?
Yeah. I think it makes life a little easier.
Are you worried about it, like from an existential risk perspective or anything to do with climate change problem?
Yeah, I mean, definitely point of view.
Yeah. Yeah. Tell me more.
I mean it's impossible to predict the future.
Absolutely.
Yeah. I probably don't know enough about it to really be able to be like, it's definitely gonna kill us all.
But hot takes are welcome. Even low confidence, like Terminator. Is that.
Sure, yeah.
Is that what you're thinking of? What other movies you thinking of?
The Matrix.
The Matrix?
Yeah.
Okay. What do you mean by the Matrix? Like are we all in the Matrix?
Well, there's also iRobot, which is a good one.
Okay. Yeah. With Will Smith. That's right.
Yeah, yeah. And there's a book with iRobot Mod. Yeah.
Oh yeah, the Isaac as the rules of Robotics. That's right. Okay. Yes. Okay, well thank you so much. I won't take up all your time.
Like a YouTube channel or something.
Yeah, you can follow me. Therobert Taw. I'm trying to solve AI alignment so it doesn't kill us all. So when I have kids someday, I'm confident that, that I'm bringing them to a good future. So follow the Robert Saw if you want to check it out. Take care. That was cool. He spat out some science fiction takes and there's a hypothesis I've been having which is nobody's painting a positive view of the future. And science fiction is essentially a view of the future written by novelists. Right. And artists. And so if you really think about it, self driving cars. When was that quote invented into consciousness? Well, it was written about decades ago, before they came into existence. So we need these visionaries. Right? Let me ask these folks. Hey, yo, quick question. Do you think AI is going to kill us all? Take our jobs? No. Maybe. No. Yes. Okay, bye. Oh, this bookstore is dope, by the way. Pegasus Books.
