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If AI does everything, where will humans find meaning?
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First asked Mar 25, 2024, most recently Jan 22, 2026. Excerpts below are from machine transcripts with filler words (um, uh, you know) and stutters removed; … marks a cut. They are not checked word for word, so use the link to hear the exact words, or the transcript link for the raw text. Timestamps: 2 cross-checked against YouTube captions, 1 from the archive transcript only. X has no link-to-time option, so X links open at the start.
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Mar 25, 2024 · Abundance360 Summit · asked by Peter Diamandis
Q: how do we find purpose?
I mean I think that's sort of a high class problem to say like, well the computers are so good at doing everything. And like I said, I thought your book is pretty accurate in terms of the future being one of abundance where essentially goods and services will be available in such quantity that really they'll be available to everyone. Like basically if you want something, you can just have it essentially because if …
Mar 17, 2025 · Verdict with Ted Cruz · asked by Ted Cruz
Q: Why are goods and services free in an AI world or close to free?
Well, you have, I don't know, tens of billions of robots. They will make you anything or provide any service you want for basically next to nothing. It's not that people will have a lower standard of living, they'll have actually a much higher standard of living. The challenge will be fulfillment. How do you drive fulfillment and meaning in life?
Jan 22, 2026 · Davos · asked by Larry Fink
Q: But how do you then have human purpose in that scenario?
Yeah, I mean there are. Nothing's perfect but I mean, it is a necessary. Like you can't have both. You can't have work that has to be done and amazing abundance for all. Because if it's, if it's work that has to be done, then, and only some people can do it, then you can't have abundance.
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