The speaker says extrapolating AI's current share of economic automation would imply a timescale of centuries, but rejects that conclusion.

“like a trend you can literally extrapolate of when do we get the fourth automation because if you look at the fraction of the economy that has actually been automated it's very like by AI it's very small so if you just extrapolate that trend which is something say Robin Hanson likes to do you're gonna say well it's gonna take centuries or something now we don't agree with that view but I think one way of thinking about this is like”