He said he struggles with the question. People may find ways to be happy the way retirees do even without work.
"some kind of universal basic income I don't think we're going to have a choice"
"There will be fewer and fewer jobs that a robot cannot do better"
"robots will be able to do everything better than us"
"Universal income will be necessary over time if AI takes over most human jobs"
"over time a I will make jobs kind of work pointless"
"in the future physical work will be a choice"
"long term that there will need to be universal basic income"
"Assuming that we're in a benign AI scenario, I think the AI will be able to make goods and services very inexpensively."
"I wouldn't worry about the sort of, putting people out of a job thing"
"Optimus will obviate what it even means, what an economy even means"
"After AGI, yes"
"Not clear what money means even in a benign, post-scarcity AGI scenario"
"there will come a point where no job is needed"
"We should dispense with the false idea that money is somehow relevant in an AGi future"
"AI and robotics will mean that there are no shortage of goods and services"
"Productivity is really the thing that leads to prosperity."
"There will be universal high income, not basic, in a positive AI future. No scarcity, except that which we define to be scarce. In that scenario, everyone can have whatever goods & services they want. It is less clear how we will find meaning in a world where work is"
"the question will really be one of meaning"
"There will be universal high income (not basic)"
"I think it will be universal high income"
"in the benign AI scenario we are headed for an age of abundance where there was no shortage of goods and services."
"how do we find meaning in a world where AI can do everything we can do a bit better"
"The cost of products and services will decline dramatically and basically anyone will be able to have any products and services they want."
"My comment about needing UBI is in the context of a future where we have robots that can do all manual labor, not present day. In a good AI future, we will effectively have universal high income, not basic."
"the robot's totally happy to do the boring, dangerous, repetitive task that no, no humans want to do."
"once you once you have uh humanoid robots um and deep intelligence you can basically"
"Goods goods and services will become as close to free"
"we may be able to address the relevance question"
"There will be universal high income (not merely basic income). Everyone will have the best medical care, food, home, transport and everything else. Sustainable abundance."
"working will be optional uh because you'll have robots plus AI"
"Working will be optional in the future. There will be universal high income."
"working will be optional"
"But yet chess is at all-time highs in popularity"
"work will be optional"
"Optimus will eliminate poverty and provide universal high income for all"
"People people will be able to do whatever they want with their free time. Um work will be optional."
"Ironically, Optimus, FSD and AI will provide all the things this moocher demands"
"It is certainly a nice gesture of the Dells, but there will be no poverty in the future and so no need to save money. There will be universal high income."
"You can't have work that has to be done uh um and uh amazing abundance for all"
"AI can do probably half or more of those jobs right now."
"Corporations that are purely AI and robotics will vastly outperform any corporations that have people in the loop"
"I do think we'll have universal high income"
"universal high income"
"I think work is going to be optional"
"AI+Robots will be able to do everything, resulting in universal high income. Work will be optional."
"there will be effectively universal high income"
"I think AI will probably increase the global economy by 20 to 30%"
"A welfare state and free immigration will obviously bankrupt any country. AI + robotics is the only path to universal high income for everyone on Earth."
"there won't be anything that humans can do that that the AI and the robots can't do better."