Most Replayed Moment: AI Safety Expert Predicts The Next 20 Years! Will It Really Take All Jobs?
5/22/202636 min
Dr. Roman Yampolskiy is a leading voice in AI safety and a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. He coined the term “AI safety” in 2010 and has published over 100 papers on the dangers of AI. In today’s moment, Roman unpacks the jobs AI might replace, and how the idea of work itself could be challenged. Driverless cars, humanoid robots, superintelligence on the horizon…is it too late to regain control? What will our future actually look like? Listen to the full episode here! Spotify: https://g2ul0.app.link/kM19qMRnG2b Apple: https://g2ul0.app.link/D8XtGbUnG2b Watch the Episodes On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/%20TheDiaryOfACEO/videos Roman: https://www.romanyampolskiy.com/
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First 90 secondsSteven Bartlett· Host0:00
Something we think about a lot on The Diary of a CEO is distribution, because we could have the most interesting guest in the world and the most thought-provoking conversation, but if nobody can find us, none of that really matters. And this logic applies to pretty much any business. Whatever you're selling, however good it is, distribution often is the determining factor of whether you win or whether you lose. And this is why it's interesting to me that so many vacation rental owners are essentially invisible to a huge chunk of their potential market without even realizing it. Let me explain. Booking.com is one of the most downloaded travel apps in the world, and since two thousand and ten, it's helped over one point eight billion vacation rental guests find places to stay. That's a huge pool of travelers actively looking for places to stay. So if you've got a vacation rental that isn't on Booking.com, that means you're missing out on being seen by millions of travelers already searching their platform. Getting listed takes fifteen minutes, and nearly half of new hosts get their first booking within a week. If you need that kind of global reach for your listing, which I assume you do, then head to Booking.com to start your listing today. [upbeat music] You must hear a lot of rebuttals to when-- this when you say it, because people experience a huge amount of mental discomfort when they hear that their job, their career, the thing they got a degree in, the thing they invested- Mm-hmm ... a hundred thousand dollars into is gonna be taken away from them. So their natural reaction, some-- for some people, is that cognitive dissonance that, "No, you're wrong. AI can't be creative. It's not this, it's not that. It'll never be interested in my job. I'll be fine," because...