Will Humphreys speaks optimistically about AI by drawing a historical analogy to the automobile revolution: while the car eliminated many jobs (e.g., people who cleaned horse manure), it ultimately improved overall living standards and created new industries and opportunities. Humphreys argues similar disruptive change from AI will likely benefit people over time.
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For me, I have a similar perspective of more optimism. It's kind of like what you said. You look at history as a model and you look at inflection points. When the automobile came out, this came from Gary Vee. When the automobile came out, it eliminated like, in New York alone, there were thousands of jobs of men and women who literally their whole income was cleaning up manure in the streets behind all these horses that were the primary mode of transportation. And so now you have automobiles, and guess what? All these industries disappear forever. But are we did it lead to a better life for people or a worse life in general? Much better. So there's these changes that occur in and ultimately, they are they benefit everyone, even I guarantee, those people who were once cleaning manure found other things that were created by the new revolutions. J.