Taylor: Productivity will never end human status competition or jobs
Bret Taylor · OpenAI’s Bret Taylor & Reid Hoffman: Your business can’t wait until AI is perfect | Masters of Scale · Aug 8, 2024 · at 10:47
Bret Taylor, OpenAI Board Chair and Sierra founder, explains why he believes technological automation will never eliminate the human drive to work and differentiate through new economic roles.
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“We're all competing for status in this world, and no amount of productivity in the economy will change that aspect of society or human nature, and as a consequence, we'll create an economy around the technology that exists around us to enable us to be what we've always been, as flawed as humanity is.”
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