Takeaways:
AI's first wave focused on classificaiton tasks, the second wave of Generative AI interprets the spaces between classifications/concepts to create something new, and the next wave will stack AI models to learn relationships between data and allow for all to have a form of Personal AIs to support them in their work and private lives.
Re: What is going to happen to jobs? Suleyman talks the audience through the Lump of Labor fallacy. We will continually be creating new jobs and roles.
For Suleyman, the goal of society is radical abundance. That more people are able to do work that brings them well-being, a radical redistribution of wealth and not just fueling GDP.
In terms of liberal democracy, where the world is in a fragile and anxious state, there are real risks with new technologies that allow for "new forms of synthetic media that are persuasive and manipulative and highly personalized and they exacerbate underlying fears."
AI will "amplify the very best in us, and amplify the very worst in us." AI will require good governance, functioning democracies, and good oversight, all possible and necessary, referencing the EU's AI Act: https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/
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