If you’ve seen my YouTube channel and this blog, you’ll know that for the last few years—ever since ChatGPT first came out, really—I have written and spoken almost exclusively about the latest developments in agents and how to build systems around LLMs. But, for a while, I want to pivot away from that. I want to go deeper: deeper into the past, and deeper into the fundamental questions involved.
The central question—and the deepest angst—of the AI age is this: What will humans do if part or all of their work is automated? At a more technical level, how should we design and implement that automation? These, however, are age-old questions—ones I’ve frequently covered on the blog, years before LLMs. All this has happened before, and all this will happen again.