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Comment by Jerry Kaplan
Futurist and AI scholar, Stanford fellow
These are very powerful technologies, just as those machines in the 1940s were very powerful in terms of their ability to do calculations. What this will do is create a great deal of wealth. The question is, who gets that wealth? [...] The problem is this particular technology, for all of its benefits and for all the ways it is going to make life more pleasant and cheaper and generate a great deal of wealth, is going to generate most of that wealth for a very small group of people who are the ones who can afford to invest in that automation.AI Verified source (Jan 14, 2016)
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The Carnegie Council transcript page dated Jan 14, 2016 lists Jerry Kaplan as the speaker and contains these exact sentences in his remarks: first at line 128 ("These are very powerful technologies ... The question is, who gets that wealth?") and later at line 137 ("The problem is this particular technology ... invest in that automation."). The ellipsis only omits intervening transcript text, so the stored quote, author, date, and source URL are correct. ([carnegiecouncil.org](https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/media/series/39/20160111-humans-need-not-apply-a-guide-to-wealth-and-work-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 17d ago
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Disputed. The Carnegie Council transcript from January 14, 2016 contains the first two passages as remarks by Jerry Kaplan, including “These are very powerful technologies...” and “The problem is this particular technology... is going to generate most of that wealth for a very small group of people...”. But the final sentence, “There will just be much less jobs than there are people, no matter how you shuffle it,” is attributed in the same transcript to a questioner (“QUESTION: Sondra Stein”), not to Kaplan. So the full quotation as presented is materially misattributed. ([fr.carnegiecouncil.org](https://fr.carnegiecouncil.org/media/series/39/20160111-humans-need-not-apply-a-guide-to-wealth-and-work-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 19d ago
replying to Jerry Kaplan