{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/683f0798c966cde736234a29/6a0478acd58f9c365b0ebb15?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The AI future where humans get paid to be creative","description":"<p>Most AI futures give us two options: mass unemployment, or a government handout to soften the blow. But what if there's a third option, one centered on completely new categories of creative work that don't yet exist, where people get paid for contributing to AI rather than replaced by it?</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, we talk with Jaron Lanier, pioneer of virtual reality and scientist at Microsoft Research. He proposes a radically different way of thinking about AI, and unpacks its consequences from AI safety to the future of the economy.</p><p><br></p><p>We touch on:</p><ul><li>The case for thinking of AI not as an alien intelligence, but rather as a collaboration of human data</li><li>How this reframe helps you understand the failures of current AI systems, and why so many of the industry's most powerful figures seem to be losing their grip on reality</li><li>A practical approach to AI safety inspired by multi-factor authentication in cybersecurity</li><li>Why universal basic income is unstable, and why a creativity economy (where people earn from their contributions to AI) could be a better way of distributing the benefits of AI</li><li>How to be an optimist about technological progress while acknowledging the risks and being critical of certain developments</li><li>Why history gives us the most rational grounds for optimism about our future with AI</li></ul><p><br></p>","author_name":"Foresight Institute"}