What Makes You Valuable If AI Can Already Do the Same? — original Russian video by Alexander Volchek

VideoPersonal developmentOct 7, 202621:41

What Makes You Valuable If AI Can Already Do the Same?

Alexander VolchekOlga Stolyarova

What will be left for humans if AI handles more and more tasks? What can we base our sense of worth on? Should we fear automation? And what is important to develop in ourselves as technology grows increasingly powerful?

Main subjects

Alexander VolchekOlga StolyarovaArtificial intelligence and technologyArtificial intelligenceThe human spiritual systemSpiritual development and the spiritual path

The main question

What will be left for humans if AI handles more and more tasks?

What you can take away

  • Alexander Volchek explores what a human being is first and foremost, whether we should compete with artificial intelligence at all, what technology can really take away from us, and what can never be replaced.
  • A conversation about artificial intelligence, the future of work, human value, technology, and what it means to remain human in a changing world.

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Claims made here

Individual claims identified in the material: who said them, when, and what kind of thought they express. Each timestamp opens that point in the video.

  • 00:00

    That raises a question: if my value lay in what I could do, and now AI can do it, what is my value today?

    Olga Stolyarovacomparison

  • 00:40

    That set off a whole discussion about how I was stupid, clueless, off in my own world, and completely out of touch with people's lives.

    Alexander Volchek

  • 01:33

    It was a very interesting discussion, because I also had another example involving a vacuum cleaner.

    Alexander Volchek

  • 01:33

    People got angry with me about that too: "What are you telling children? That they no longer need to learn how to vacuum?"

    Alexander Volchekcause

  • 01:33

    These discussions always arise from a very narrow view of human life.

    Alexander Volchekprinciplecause

  • 02:27

    As always, people start worrying about their egos rather than where that leaves them.

    Alexander Volchekprinciplecomparison

  • 03:19

    In other words, they want to replace parts of a human being, turn a person into a robot, and forget the most important thing about being human and what a human being should be doing.

    Alexander Volchek

  • 04:55

    But that does not mean my children cannot hammer a nail, climb a tree, or do other things.

    Alexander Volchek

  • 05:48

    With a human driver, the probability is very high, especially in hilly terrain. I live in Silicon Valley, but up in the hills.

    Alexander Volchek

  • 12:45

    She feels wonderful about what she sees, and I feel uneasy, because each person has their own state of reality, their own energies at work.

    Alexander Volchekcause

What to pay attention to

  • Why people fear technologies that become better than they are
  • When a human being cannot be replaced

What to watch next

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Who this is for

  • For readers interested in: Artificial intelligence and technology, Spiritual development and the spiritual path, Personal development and inner support
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