"It will be a problem in the end, I think, for society what happens, what do we do with all the people that computers replace? And eventually, I mean, right now you need more and more skills in order to have jobs. But, there's this guy Robin Hansen, you know about Robin Hansen? Robin Hansen is an economist and he has got this interesting metaphor of sea level rising. Sea level is what computers can do. And land and the land that's inhabited, the jobs that require humans to do. And sea level's been rising. And on the shore a lot of people are displaced. Well, they've had to move to higher levels. But, to move to higher levels they have to have more training. Now, the fact that sea level's rising itself makes some higher levels. It's a funny thing. At sea level build some mountains so people can climb those mountains, but sea level will keep rising. And the question is will it rise above even those mountains? And so, what do we end up having people do?"
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Nils John Nilsson
Nils John Nilsson (February 6, 1933 – April 23, 2019) was an American computer scientist. He was one of the founding researchers in the discipline of artificial intelligence. He was the first Kumagai Professor of Engineering in computer science at Stanford University from 1991 until his retirement. He is particularly known for his contributions to search, planning, knowledge representation, and robotics
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