Comment by Stuart J. Russell

It’s sort of a fallacy to say, oh, there’ll always be new jobs. With both physical and mental work automated, it’s not clear that there’s a third sector in which humans will continue to be able to deliver economic value.

But they would also do pretty much every kind of work humans do, including the “so-called new jobs” expected to replace lost ones. “It’s sort of a fallacy to say, oh, there’ll always be new jobs,” he said. With both physical and mental work automated...

I think at some point it will become politically obvious that there is only one way forward: passing a law that says you may not build AI systems exceeding a certain level of capability until you prove they are safe.