Here is one extra bit from my chat with Jack Clark of Anthropic:
COWEN: For the ongoing AI revolution, what’s the worst age to be?
CLARK: Ooh.
COWEN: Say the best age is just to have been born if you’re going to live to maybe 130. If you’re very old and retired, it probably isn’t going to make you any worse off. It’ll help you in some ways.
CLARK: I feel like people who worked on AI for many years and are now in their 60s might be feeling very shortchanged because they’re like, “I love this technology. I really wanted to make this technology real, but technology is now becoming real, and I’m going to maybe miss some of the most interesting parts of it as it makes its way into the world.” I think that could be galling.
COWEN: But they can retire, right? Say I’m 40, and I did something upper middle-class but fairly routine. It feels a bit old to easily retrain. My guess is people who are 40 are the worst off in relative terms, even though they might live longer.
CLARK: You could be right. I also think that there’s some chance that the worst age to be is maybe 10 or so, because you are now computer literate, you’re sophisticated. You’re going into an education system that is needing to react to this technology. You will be using the technology in a way completely different to your education system, and it might just feel violently confusing. I see that being a really difficult time.
Worth a ponder, no matter what your age.
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