Tough Question
Elon Musk on how to choose a career in the age of AI: Just follow your heart and try to contribute some good to the rest of society. “That is a tough question to answer. I guess I would just say to follow their heart in terms of what they find interesting to do or fulfilling to do and try to be as useful as possible to the rest of society. If we do get to the sort of magic genie situation where you can ask the AI for anything, and let's say it's even the benign scenario, how do we actually find fulfillment? How do we find meaning in life if the AI could do your job better than you can? If I think about it too hard, frankly, it can be dispiriting and demotivating, because I've put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into building the companies, and then I'm like, wait, should I be doing this? Because if I'm sacrificing time with friends and family, but then ultimately the AI can do all these things, does that make sense? I don't know. To some extent, I have to have deliberate suspension of disbelief in order to remain motivated. So I guess I would say just work on things that you find interesting, fulfilling, and that contribute some good to the rest of society.” CNBC interview with David Faber, May 16, 2023 - https://x.com/ElonClipsX/status/1952445951789965332