Some techies hold the attitude that “what I do is important, and what you do isn’t,” and the more socially savvy ones don’t say the quiet part out loud.
But Mira Murati, OpenAI’s CTO, did just that onstage at her alma mater, Dartmouth University, where she said this about AI displacing jobs in creative lines of work:
Some creative jobs maybe will go away, but maybe they shouldn’t have been there in the first place.
Mira Murati, from AI Everywhere: Transforming Our World, Empowering Humanity
(she says this around the 29:30 mark)
Here’s my take on her bad take, courtesy of the Global Nerdy YouTube channel, which you should subscribe to…
…and here’s the video with her full talk at Dartmouth: