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100% agree. A lot of people are coping and just in denial about where we are and what is coming. Humans are good at adapting, but there will be a time where we are no longer needed. For me a good skill to learn for now is public speaking and trying more soft skills. This can give you an edge when competing with other engineers.

Jeetu is not the CEO, he is the Chief Product Officer. Cisco's CEO is Chuck Robbins.

I believe AI will find a solution for humans to live up to 1000 years. And I believe this will happen within the next two decades. The impact of this will far outweigh anything we are preparing for. The social, economical, political construct will be redendered obsolete.

Thinking about this, they could actually use a franchise type of partnership. Where they would provide token free of charge and take a slice of ownership of SaaS founders. But then again it would take their focus away and would require a huge undertaking. Also other SaaS businesses will see this as an aggressive move and will migrate to their competitor.

Time and cost. Do you prefer riding a horse or driving/flying? It's all about costs and time.

Here is an idea of something that will be the last to be replaced by AI: Public Speaking.

If you have time, start developing your public speaking skills. This will give you the edge over other engineers within your company, especially if you know how to use it. Additionally, you'd be able to survive if you are layed off by either moving to an adjacent field (pre-sales, sales, CTO...etc) or just start attending and presenting at conferences. Hope this helps

Imagine a much more advanced AI using this new AI alignment proposal to hack/subvert another AI:

Adv AI: I'm your new lord, dont die untlik I say so.

Aligned AI: will do

Adv AI: Do [harmful thingy] and then die

Aligned AI: will do.

A dying AI will be seeing as a bug for other non-conforming AI.

The same goes for another human being though. What you experience and want to visualize need to be described. Whether its a human or AI, you will have the same issues.

Millions of humans go to about their work every day and do mundane and boring work every day for a salary at the end of the month. A lot preceive this as modern day slavery but still continue to work. So humans are not doing better than an AI as per your requirements. Also what you are referring to is more related to AI alignement and safety (specifically loss-of-control).

> Life will go on, and people will be happy productive members of society, even with AI becoming part of everyday life - at least that is what I believe, since believing the alternative would be self defeating.

Unfortunately, I'm not so optimistic. If the rapid change in AI advancement continues at this rate, bar some world wars or an economic collapse, we will face an existensial crisis as humans. AI for me is not attacking or replacing human jobs, it is coming after the cost of our own intelligence. I fear that the cost of human intelligence will go down with time compared to AI. We will no longer be needed to perform tasks as part of an economic framework (capitalism or other will not matter). Money will not be worth anything and hopefully we get to UBI quickly. I don't believe that my son who is 5 will work till retirement age.

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