(2025/06/01) Doom vs Boom in AI: Job Destruction or Abundance?
David Sacks:
"Let's acknowledge that there are concerns and risks associated with AI. It is a profound and transformative technology, and there are legitimate concerns about where it might lead. The future is unknown, and that can be kind of scary.
That being said, I think that when somebody makes a pronouncement that says something like "50% of white-collar jobs are going to be lost within two years," that's a level of specificity that I think is just unknowable and is more associated with an attempt to grab headlines.
To be frank, if you go back and look at Anthropic's announcement or Dario's announcement, there is a pattern of trying to grab headlines by making the most sensationalist version of what could be a legitimate concern. If you go back three years ago, they created this concern that AI models could be used to create bioweapons. They showed what was supposedly a sample, I think of Claude, generating an output that could be used by a bioterrorist or something like that. On the basis of that, it actually got a lot of play, and in the UK, Rishi Sunak got very interested in this cause, and that led to the first AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park.
So that sort of concern really drove some of the initial AI safety concerns, but it turns out that that particular output was discredited; it wasn't true. I'm not saying that AI couldn't be used or misused to maybe create a bioweapon one day, but it was not an imminent threat in the way that it was portrayed.
There have been other examples of this. You know, obviously, people are concerned about, "Could the AI develop into a superintelligence that grows beyond our control? Could it lead to widespread job loss?" I mean, these are legitimate things to worry about, but I think these concerns are being hyped up to a level that there's simply no evidence for. And the question is why, and I think that there is an agenda here."
Doom vs Boom in AI: Job Destruction or Abundance? (25:17)
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