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The guest believes that AI, compute, and robotics capabilities could greatly accelerate and transform the world even if occupational licensing blocks AI from some legal and other jobs.
Thomas Larsen · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“to really speed up and sort of massively change the overall world, even if, for example,”
“you know, let's say, let's say like there is occupational licensing or whatever,”
“preventing the AIs from doing like some random legal work or some random whatever work or whatever bullshit jobs throughout the economy. I think sort of what really, really matters is sort of this is like the stuff that's actually really important,”
“in particular, the robots, the compute and the better AI.”Play from 30:21Report a misattribution
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