The reason I'm not that worried yet about labor market disruption is I still believe deeply that humans are the source of deep understanding and creativity in the world.
Tim argues that humans remain the indispensable source of deep understanding and creativity, suggesting AI will amplify rather than replace human capabilities, at least for now. ✦ AI generated
Tim · Machine Learning Street Talk · 2026-03-13 · original ↗
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The reason why I'm not that worried yet about labor market disruption is I still believe deeply that humans are the source of deep understanding and creativity in the world. If I didn't believe that, I would be very worried.
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56:17that humans wouldn't be needed anymore. And the reason why I'm not that worried yet about labor market disruption is I still believe deeply that humans are the source of deep understanding and creativity in the world. If I didn't believe that, I would be very worried. >> I agree. To me, like the AI scientist like V1 and now V2 are sort of glimpses into a potential transformation, but I
56:43fully agree in order to make really big scientific breakthroughs like multiple of them like every day or whatever, you still need humans in the loop to sort of either seed or guide the direction in which to explore or to to verify, check, and um actually, yeah, transfer these insights, right? So, I think um it's not going to be like all PhDs will will will be unemployed. It's it's
57:08more going to be a um sort of core evolution of humans with this technology and um potentially like in an ideal future for me, like it will allow humans to focus on what they're really really great at, right? So, I think it's going to be an amplifier of sort of these these latent dimensions humans are great at, right? I think something that's critical is that we as humans try to
57:30interact with these systems as early as possible in order to actually like have influence and ownership over like this development process, right? It's ultimately collective intelligence that will shape all of these systems together. >> And do you think these systems can become incredibly sophisticated such that they are you know, somewhat detached from humans? >> Well, I mean with the AI scientist V2, we sort of released that
57:59one paper that we submitted to an Iclear workshop was able to sort of pass the acceptance threshold before meta review. So, I I do think at least for sort of workshop level contributions, we're we're getting there. While not every submission in AI scientist paper does is or is reaching that threshold, we're we're at the point where we can even talk about sort of noisy review processes and