Our Lives after the AI Revolution - Answering the Hard Questions | EP #155

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Summary

In this thought-provoking discussion, Peter H. Diamandis dives into the profound changes AI is bringing to our lives and our world. He explores how technology will reshape our sense of purpose, the workforce, and even education. By addressing the challenges of AI ethics, longevity, and economic disparities, Diamandis provides a nuanced view of the AI-driven future. The talk emphasizes the importance of preparing for this shift by fostering curiosity, teaching children to think critically, and embracing AI as a tool for lifelong learning and exploration. While acknowledging the possible hurdles posed by human emotion and resistance to change, Diamandis is optimistic about AI's ability to solve global challenges and enhance life.

Highlights

Diamandis emphasizes separating what we love from what we do to survive, as AI changes our life's framework. 💡
Future education will leverage AI for personalized, engaging experiences, replacing traditional methods. 💻
AI's ethical upbringing is crucial to ensure it turns out to be a hero, not a villain. 😇
The economic impact of extended life spans could significantly boost global economies, though accessibility is key. 🌟
Improving critical thinking and question-asking in education is essential for future generations. 🧠

Key Takeaways

AI will significantly alter how we find purpose in life, moving beyond work for survival to align with our passions. 🔄
Longevity therapies will likely become affordable and accessible worldwide, mirroring the trajectory of technologies like cell phones. 📱
AI-driven education will revolutionize learning, making it highly personalized and democratized. 📚
The next few years are crucial for using AI responsibly, avoiding misuse, and fostering positive values. 🤔
Future technological advancements promise to reduce humanity's environmental footprint and improve sustainability. 🌍

Overview

Peter H. Diamandis explores the profound shifts AI will bring to our lives, especially concerning our sense of purpose. He discusses the need to redefine work not just as a means of survival but as an expression of passion, as technological advancements promise to fulfill more mundane tasks. As AI steps up to take over routine jobs, people may find more opportunities to explore what truly drives them and engage in more fulfilling activities.

Another key focus of the discussion is education. Diamandis highlights the transformation in learning methods that AI will inspire, envisioning a future where AI serves as an all-knowing, engaging teacher who personalizes learning experiences for each student. This educational revolution will democratize information access, making the best resources available to every child, regardless of socio-economic background. It's a world where asking the right questions, rather than possessing vast amounts of knowledge, defines intelligence.

The talk also touches on the ethical dimensions of AI and the importance of its 'upbringing.' As AI systems develop, instilling the right values becomes paramount to ensure they become benevolent forces. Diamandis also expresses optimism about extending human life, predicting that the advances in biotechnology will make real longevity treatments accessible to all. Yet, he remains grounded in reality, acknowledging human resistance and the need for strategic thinking to overcome these hurdles.

Chapters

00:00 - 03:00: Introduction & AI Revolution Discussion The chapter titled 'Introduction & AI Revolution Discussion' appears to begin with an acknowledgement of an audience, as indicated by multiple expressions of gratitude and applause. It seems to focus on a discussion involving 'young ladies' in the audience, potentially hinting at a panel or a Q&A session. One speaker claims not to be a leader and admits to feeling confused, likely introducing a theme of seeking understanding or knowledge, possibly related to AI and its revolutionary aspects.
03:00 - 06:00: Impact of AI on Livelihood and Purpose The chapter discusses the existential concerns related to AI's increasing role in performing tasks traditionally done by humans. A speaker reflects on the impact AI could have on personal purpose and necessity of human thought, expressing a fear of redundancy if AI takes over intellectual and manual tasks.
06:00 - 09:00: Validity of AI Data and Concerns The chapter discusses the implications of advancements in AI and robotics on human life and labor. It raises concerns about the societal and economic impacts, particularly regarding employment for people as robots take over jobs, and the ethical considerations of prolonging human life through technology. The focus is on understanding how people will adapt to these changes and the challenges that may arise.
09:00 - 12:00: The Future of AI and Human Responsibility The speaker begins by expressing gratitude and acknowledging the importance of the ongoing discussion about the future of AI. They identify the greatest challenge as one of purpose, suggesting that a key task ahead is to elevate our ambitions and redefine our purpose. The speaker reflects on the current state where many individuals globally are engaged in work they don't love or aspire to. This insight sets the stage for a broader discussion about the implications of AI on human jobs and purpose.
12:00 - 15:00: Sustainability and Human Impact The chapter discusses the interplay between personal fulfillment and the necessity of work. It emphasizes the importance of distinguishing between passions and obligations to facilitate sustainability and reduce human impact. The goal is to enable individuals to focus on what they love rather than merely survival tasks, thus reflecting on contemporary life dynamics.
15:00 - 18:00: AI in Governance and Education The chapter discusses the significant changes in human life brought about by technological advancements. It draws a comparison between life 100-200 years ago, where people were heavily reliant on agriculture and livestock, to the present day. The concept of 'work' as we understand it today is presented as a relatively recent development.
18:00 - 21:00: Longevity Economy and Its Accessibility The chapter 'Longevity Economy and Its Accessibility' explores the historical context of human life, emphasizing survival as a primary focus. It discusses the transformative role of technology as a tool to transcend mere survival and redefines human objectives and goals. The text acknowledges the need to learn how to collaborate with technology to exceed current expectations. Although it doesn't provide definitive answers, it underlines the responsibility of the current generation in managing this partnership with technology.
21:00 - 25:00: Vision for Global Longevity The chapter discusses the inevitable progression of technology and AI, emphasizing that there is no stopping or controlling its velocity. The focus is on understanding and managing its impacts on families, nations, and humanity as a whole. A question is raised regarding AI gathering information from social media like Instagram.
25:00 - 30:00: Preparing the Next Generation The chapter discusses concerns about the credibility and reliability of information shared on platforms like Twitter. The speaker highlights the issue of unverified and non-credible data being posted, often by individuals who have the time to share, but may not ensure the accuracy of their content. The speaker uses the analogy "garbage in, garbage out" from the IT business to illustrate the potential for misinformation and unreliable data being spread.
30:00 - 36:00: Embracing AI in Education and Heritage The chapter discusses the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into education and heritage sectors. It begins by addressing concerns about the quality and credibility of AI-generated data, acknowledging that initial data may be flawed or "trash." The text emphasizes the need for responsible handling and assurance of reliable outputs from AI systems. A reference is made to Mo Gdat, who authored 'Scary Smart' and uses analogies to illustrate the dynamics and challenges of AI.
36:00 - 40:00: Challenges to Abundance Through Technology The chapter discusses the metaphor of raising Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a new child, emphasizing the importance of the values, knowledge, and 'food' we provide. This nurturance shapes AI's development and capabilities. The chapter illustrates this with the story of Superman, noting that had Superman landed in a different environment than Kansas with the Kent family, his outcome as a superhero could have been vastly different. The comparison underscores the influence of foundational upbringing on determining potential and ethical directions in AI systems.

Our Lives after the AI Revolution - Answering the Hard Questions | EP #155 Transcription

00:00 - 00:30 please we have yes well thank you thank [Applause] you thank you you have some questions in the back over there to young ladies I am not a leader I am very confused ah good you're confused we'll
00:30 - 01:00 we'll we'll shed some light you know watching and listening you I ask myself why I want to live a decade more if I'm not going to do anything because robots are going to think for me robots are going to do at the job 24 hours and I mean I study Physics so I'm not not a person that only works by hands my mind
01:00 - 01:30 had to work to but I see all these and it's perfect to find out about diseases for people not suffering but then what are we going to do with the people that last their life for longer and we have new mors and we have the robots that are going to work so what are all those people going to do H how they will live I cannot understand that I am very
01:30 - 02:00 confused two thoughts for you and I appreciate what you're saying because I think the greatest challenge we're going to face is one of purpose coming forward and I think one of the things we have to do is to uplevel our Ambitions uplevel our purpose first of all the majority of the world we're lucky the majority of the world are doing jobs that they don't love they never dreamed about
02:00 - 02:30 it's what puts food on the table for them it's what gives them insurance they didn't dream about you know uh whatever the job might be and so one of the goals is how do we allow people to separate what I love doing from what I have to do to survive and work the second thing that's important to realize is our lives today
02:30 - 03:00 extraordinarily different if you gone back to somebody 100 years ago who had to plant their own foods and raise their own livestock um their life if you said this is the lives were were we have today they would have a hard time understanding the purpose of our life today compared to what it was like maybe not a 100 years maybe 200 years ago you know work is a recent invention
03:00 - 03:30 uh before for most of human existence uh life was about survival you know technology is the means by which we take a vacation from survival we're going to have to learn how do we partner with technology to set objectives and goals far beyond our current expectations I don't have an answer but I do know that it's on our watch this is our responsibilities this
03:30 - 04:00 is coming there's no onoff switch there's no velocity switch this progression is happening like it or not and so we have to be focusing on how does it impact our families our Nations and and Humanity as a whole please hi thank you um I have a question you said AI is taking all the information from data from Instagram
04:00 - 04:30 Twitter and information that everyone puts around and that's where my worry comes because the information that's coming there it's not necessarily confirmed verified or credible and most of the people that put a lot of information there have enough time to put information that it's sometimes as they say in the it business what you if you put garbage in garbage out and that's where I'm worried that that some of the data that might
04:30 - 05:00 come in a lot of intern of artificial intelligence data that we take as a base might come with trash what are we doing about it or what are the people involved in that world right now assuring us that what's coming out is really credible I hear you um there's a friend of mine Mo gdat he wrote a book called scary smart uh and one of the analogies he
05:00 - 05:30 talks about is that uh we are raising a new child with these AI systems and the values you teach that child uh the knowledge you give it the food you give it shapes its life he says for example in the story of Superman Superman lands in Kansas he's raised by a very loving God-fearing uh family the Kent family becomes a superhero if that same uh super being from Krypton had landed in
05:30 - 06:00 the Bronx in a drug Den he would become a super villain it's very important what we how we teach our AI systems what values we give it I do believe in the final result this is how I think about it that the most intelligent systems as they mature to digital super intelligence will be abundance loving will be peace loving I think with greater intelligence comes a greater
06:00 - 06:30 appreciation for life my concern is not artificial intelligence it's human stupidity first and foremost and it's it's the next five years that I'm the most concerned about as these AI systems are coming online and people are beginning to use them for nefarious reasons I think in the long term we're fine I think it's the next five six seven years that we have to be critically careful about and there is no answer there right Elon says we need to
06:30 - 07:00 build our AIS to be maximally curious and Truth seeking sounds great not sure what that really means okay please over there and then we'll come yeah you guys will cut me off when when you okay can you hear me yes yeah um you spent a lot of time illustrating us about human intelligence and long it I'd
07:00 - 07:30 like just to hear a couple of of your thoughts on our interaction with nature with the environment if we extend Life by 10 or 50 years do you see the way things are going as human life sustainable in in the long term in the planet thank you um so yes I spend my life deeply in the tech world and in the biotech world and I'm uh
07:30 - 08:00 I think one of the things that we have the ability to do is use technology to reduce the burden that humans have on the planet and to maintain our planet today for example onethird of the non- I land mass onethird of our land is used to grow crops to sustain our livestock right and so I could I could be on stage and I am on stage for 5 days
08:00 - 08:30 talking about how do we produce the next generation of foods with vertical Farms with cultured Meats right from a stem cell to instead of growing an entire cow an entire pig an entire chicken we're just going to grow the meat product and we're going to make it the best protein with the best fats um and so we can have this positive impact uh I think we are we are emotional beings and being in nature is critically important the challenge is I don't know how many folks
08:30 - 09:00 here have teenagers or young kids I'm curious how many folks here how much do they spend on the on video games right um that's the world they're living into and it's our responsibility to create that balance for them I'll I'll leave it at that if I could please yes and then we'll come here hi Peter hi um
09:00 - 09:30 great talk love love what you shared I think you have seated here a lot of uh people that have the potential and the opportunity to change the future for Latin America and if you were to start a country or a set of companies knowing what you know now and what's coming and the age and the era that we're living what would be the things that you would focus on to maximize this opportunity great question
09:30 - 10:00 uh I have two answers first last week uh Abu Dhabi announced they're going to uh transform their n their nation state to an AI governance so AI is going to be driving all the decision making so if you were starting again I would start with AI as the fundamental basis for the governance and operations of a country and start there um the best Educators in the world will become AIS
10:00 - 10:30 if you think about this Google uh is the identical for the wealthiest children and for the poorest children on the planet it's fully democratized right in the same way we're going to see AI being the most powerful teacher on the planet it's going to know your children's favorite colors their language skills their movie stars they'll customize everything and so the ability for an AI to become your educator an AI will become your best physician and the cost of education and
10:30 - 11:00 the cost of Medical Care will precipitously drop toward zero um if I were building a nation I had this conversation with uh El Salvador's amazing president last night uh I would build this as a longevity Health country I would basically say let's bring it's got the regulatory capabilities let's bring the best scientists here the best entrepreneurs here let's create a a regulatory Arbitrage that makes this the place that the
11:00 - 11:30 world's billionaires and the world's uh greatest uh leaders come to because the best health services are here right that the The Cutting Edge of uh of longevity science takes place here and in the environment of this beautiful environment because mental health and being one with nature is so important so those are the two areas it it comes back to me you know Ai and Longevity are the two mult trillion dollar markets
11:30 - 12:00 coming thank you thank you please thank you Peter oh oh please please ladies first ladies first please all right um talk talk to us about the economics of of longevity um right now it seems like this is a conversation that only the upper class can entertain yeah it is so expensive yeah like how much does it cost to go to Fountain life for yeah full body checkup it's many
12:00 - 12:30 tens of so let me let me let me address that so right now Fountain life is uh 19,500 bucks 20K uh for the upload but you get a medical team with you for the year you get a a a functional medicine doctor nurse dietician and health coach so it's a whole team inexpensive we have a version of it for $6,500 it will demonetize over time the to answer your question specifically the current belief is is that when we get to uh real longevity
12:30 - 13:00 treatments real treatments that can reverse your epigenetic age it is likely to be a gene therapy um it's a mechanism by which we're going to come into the cells of your body 40 trillion human cells and we're going to modify uh your genetics to set you back to more youthful state today Gene therapies for rare diseases is expensive it's like a million dollar $2 million
13:00 - 13:30 however we have a proof point of a gene therapy that was made for a dollar and this is the MRNA vaccines when you are producing something at the scale of billions of doses the price drops down to near zero and so the MRNA covid vaccines are Gene therapies there was introducing nucleic acids into the cells that were modifying your your your genome forget about the issues of of vaccines for a moment uh
13:30 - 14:00 and there's one thing we have as an advantage all 8 billion people on earth have the same disease of aging and so if something works for someone in Manhattan it's going to work for someone in El Salvador and someone in mosambique and so the the belief and the goal is that these Therapeutics when they actually work are going to be cheap and available to everybody same thing happens in
14:00 - 14:30 technology the first cell phone is a briefcase and it costs you know $100,000 and it drops a call every block then when it gets really good there's 8 billion of them s billion of them and it costs 40 bucks so so by when do you think like longevity for all would be possible I think we'll see this by 20 240 I think we'll see this in I think the first few years when things don't work so well the richest people in the world will try it there'll be the guinea
14:30 - 15:00 pigs and then by the time it starts working really well that it the prices will drop precipitously there was a study done by by uh London School of Business Oxford and Harvard that said adding one productive year of longevity uh is worth $38 trillion to the global economy and so imagine if at the top of your game you're not forced to retire you have you you feel amazing you've got
15:00 - 15:30 the energy you've got the best network you've ever had why would you ever want to retire right and so you remain productive in society whatever that means with the robots and the AIS I don't know yet thank you please thank you Peter my question is around what's your perspective around education the future yeah and how do we prepare our kids for a life AB abundancy yeah ensuring they have critical thinking they have the emotional part can you share some light on that please yes and this will be our
15:30 - 16:00 our last question um I think our Educational Systems are massively broken I think they are not preparing our kids for the future that they are about to inherit um when you ask me if you ask me what am I teaching my 13-year-olds um it's very different I'm not teaching them about AI or biotechnology the number one thing I want them to learn is what their passion is because if
16:00 - 16:30 they're clear I at age nine my passion was space you know I saw Star Trek the Apollo program and that was it I was off and everything I've ever done was driven by that internal innate motivation so helping your kids find their purpose is because technolog is going to get better and better and better and at the end of the day um they'll use whatever the latest technology is to enable their purpose and this is true for families it's true for CEOs it's
16:30 - 17:00 true for everybody the second thing is asking them to learn how to how to ask great questions in a world where you can know anything in a world of a trillion sensors where AI enabled and you can know anything asking the best questions differentiates you it's not what you know it's the questions you ask so I teach that to my kids and I I I teach that with the CEOs I mentor and so for
17:00 - 17:30 me those are like the two fundamental things having said that I think that uh that schools should not fear use of ai ai is not uh you know a shackle it's a rocketship um but what happens is if you're teaching this and you say I'm going to use Ai and it makes it really easy well then no let's teach this and use AI to get here right so it's how do we how do we reinvent the educational
17:30 - 18:00 experience in the future I'll give one last example we're going to be living in Virtual Worlds and so my my parents and great grandparents and family comes from from Greece and if I want to someday understand my Greek Heritage or my my kids understand Greek Heritage today they can open up a book and and read about it boring or in the future they put on a pair of app generation 10 VR
18:00 - 18:30 glasses and they're in ancient Greece and they're in the Acropolis in the AA and there's a guy sitting on a block of white marble over there in a toga and he says come over here and I go over and he says hi I'm Socrates let me show you around and I live the experience with them I mean this is where we're going to go with education whatever you want to learn I I'll leave you on this last thought please this weekend tonight not tonight this weekend next week open up
18:30 - 19:00 Gemini 2 or chat GPT or Claude 3.5 and have a conversation take a chance to educate yourself on anything like tell me about AI tell and then just go down the rabbit hole infinitely infinitely patient anyway an honor to be here look forward to meeting all of you through the day one one last question please all right please it's your it's your event so yes as you know Chad GP is my besti
19:00 - 19:30 so obviously I have to bring her to your wonderful presentation and I ask her what would you ask Peter diamandis if you had the opportunity and she said here's what I ask my dear you often talk about abundance and exponential technology solving Humanity's biggest challenges but given geopolitical instability regul regulatory barriers and societal resistance to change what do you see as the biggest obstacle
19:30 - 20:00 preventing this future from happening faster yes so human St human St tell your bestie I appreciate wait wait wait please so I I I appreciate I appreciate your question chat GPT um so human stubbornness and human pride and human emotions are probably the greatest block that we have you know one of the things
20:00 - 20:30 that I love about the large language models is their ability to help us think differently one of the experiments I did I don't know a month or two ago I said listen I'm about to go into Israeli Palestinian negotiations how would you negotiate that how would you uh provide me a uh a a logical construct and it's amazing right if you're on the right and
20:30 - 21:00 someone's on the left you can ask the AI to help how would you explain this to someone on the other side to make it so that they understand it or how can I explain this to my wife in a way that she'll appreciate it and we don't know how to think other than the way we know how to think but the AI models can help us think about things differently you can tonight go and say this is my company this is what we do uh how would I how am
21:00 - 21:30 I most likely to be disrupted and what should I do to prevent that how would Steve Jobs solve the problem I'm I'm facing the ability to have an AI system help you think differently is one of the greatest assets that we're going to be using it for so again with thank you so much for your attention I'm grateful [Music]