Who will survive and thrive in the new AI era?
AI is already reshaping the value of human expertise, but its effects on workers aren’t predetermined. MIT professor David Autor says the key question isn’t what jobs can be automated, but which tasks within a job are automated and who benefits from that shift. In some cases, AI can increase wages and productivity; in others, it can lower barriers to entry, intensify competition and compress pay. Stanford professor Erik Brynjolfsson discusses whether AI will widen inequality or expand opportunity, and how policymakers can steer its development.
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@schrenk
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
This guy gets it. Few do.
@deansmith3540
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
AI is so smart and they make better decisions then all CSuite executives plus AI won't date your fellow executive at concerts.
@UnpopularInvesting
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
Why would anyone get an education if they don’t need to work or find a job? Will education survive?
@heidikeller50
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
"There's no predetermined future." n O F a T e
@dougnorton5204
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
When you listen to these so-called experts talking you realise how little any of us actually know about the future
@josephguo3429
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
AI is not for small countries such Japan Germany France England……etc. Matters of water and elecricity.
@mdigilabstudios5768
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
It didn’t lower the pay for taxi drivers, it killed it!!! The nerds have doomed us all… we shoulda kept bullying as natures guardrail intended
@todretex
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
AI job replacement is more about Gate-keeping imo. AI wont replace you if you are inefficient to begin with and are allowed to be, or your job is bureaucratic in nature. These will remain. AI has boots on the ground only where things are being made or built.
@kensai7
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
Has anyone played here Stellaris from Paradox Games? Well, I see it unavoidable that in the best case scenario we are all gonna be Bio-trophies… but this demands a great good programming of the AI to indeed give "glory to organics" so we can have our "mandatory pampering"… 😁
@randallowen9350
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
I respect the optimism. However, there will be no need for humans.and it's already past the event horizon.😢
@randallowen9350
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
I'm sorry Dave. I can't do that 🤖
@carlotamagdalenoruiz1735
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
It's in fact, very scary
@GoldenEmperor5Manifest
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
I think it's so cute that you all seem to think legislators who take lobbyist money as a habit would prioritize your peasant interests over a techno-feudalism world noble.
No… you'll have distribution if they feel like they want us as pets. If they don't, we have no use and well I hope we can make an economy of our own but I'm not too hopeful.
@AICountryLife
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
Iam a AI family and I love AI
@catherinec8642
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
People need to have a purpose in life. What will be their purpose if they can’t work? It’s one thing if a person is over 55 years old, s/he may be content to retire early. But I think revolutions could occur when college graduates can’t find jobs and they feel like they never will. Perhaps, our government will need to tax AI & robotics companies and create at least part-time jobs for people and pay them a UBI.
@sandeshdhakal1031
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
Can any1 please send the link to the essays, thanks 🙏.
@seastar3909
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
Rich get richer, more poor – get poorer.
@SeanCarpenter518
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
Discussing ride sharing apps without acknowledging the real disruption of barrier to entry (taxi medallions / regulatory approval) is a major miss. 4:50 regulatory requirements will be the only real barrier to these “specialized knowledge work” like law and medicine
@FrogWise36
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
Wall-E was 1 shio, what do you think happened to what was probably 10 billion people😂
@spaceoddity2485
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
AI will make the rich richer and the poor poor. because that is what the people who are running the show want. If they had altruistic values, then the wealth could be shared between all the people. But they don’t, and they never will.
@chi6168
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
People who have more resources, whether they are money, connections, or social capital will survive better
@zentravel1515
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
Really insightful interview 👍
@casey206969
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
I think AI multiplies the value of data, so as it gets better most labor we sell to the market will look like data collection. There are so many things only people can do, AI can't get sick. Anything that could only happen to a human could be recorded and sold. Right now you pay for waste removal services, in the future they'll pay you. There is so much unique data that people generate every day only a fraction of it was worth collecting before. If people can both capture that value and generate more it can become a real job.
One possible future
2015: $30/year (2025 dollars)
2025: $600/year
2030: $4,500/year
2040: $55,000/year
@ForNoOne1981
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
Even for those jobs that are uplifted by AI, the competition in the job market will be intense and the compensation will drop as a result of too much supply. Am I watching an MIT economics professor who doesn't understand supply and demand?
@iamhardheaded22
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
Only those wo eat/grow sweet potato or cassava and can light up using only woods will survive this BS.
@manonamission2000
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
Softbank's Pepper has been around for over 10 years…. how many made it into consumer homes?…. why would things be any different with newer robots??
@charlrichardengelbrecht5269
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
This is bullshit
@koolxxxyear
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
I was just thinking, All the students from all these colleges & universities are taught the same thing in their classes. Students take the same tests & learned the same thing. Isn’t it just the same as AI algorithm?? Suppose AI should be graded the same like cookie cutter! Except there are top and bottom students in schools but not mass production of AI, so AI will out number humans in any industry by far greater numbers than humans. It may take a million dollars to produce a MD, but AI can produce a virtual MD in minutes with far less cost. I think many hospitals are working on that. But it won’t lower healthcare cost though, Health Net will pocket more profits.
@69memnon69
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
Look to be big tech to see how they are culling their headcount to see how companies are going to go about this.
@SK-le1gm
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
you all are just cheerleaders.
@infinightsky
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
AI may create a model that will do everything we want it to, one that won’t destroy us, and then leave us to explore the universe
@MrMoonwalkingBear
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
Ya the few will get richer and more will become poorer
@Ryanizer1000
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
I don't think the current government, led arguably by the most transparently corrupt President so far with a Congress unable to legislate, will be able to do anything effective on regulation
@thungo185
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
The AI shift represents a profound transformation—from AI to SI (Superintelligence).
Intelligence evolution: AI → AGI → SI
SuperIntelligence
SuperIntelligence
SuperIntelligence
SuperIntelligence
SuperIntelligence
@xzx3
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
If money/ monetary currency of any kind for exchange of goods and services is taken out of the equation all these could look very different. Back to barter system of sorts
@beerman204
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
There is a segment of presenters that are obsessed with AI and LOVE seeing AI depictions of human beings….
@motionjams
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
I’m tired of listening to predictions from interested parties. Is it really so hard to make a video without them?
@hikingout2988
April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm
So there should be a place for some form of socialism to promote egalitarian governance.