Chris Smedley | AI Future

The rapid advancement of AI is transforming various aspects of society, from economies and politics to transportation and employment, and will require significant adaptations to ensure a future where humans can thrive alongside emerging technologies

Questions to inspire discussion

AI's Impact on Employment and Society

🤖 Q: How soon will AI replace human labor?
A: Dr. Smedley predicts AI will replace all human cognitive and physical labor over the next decade with perhaps 70% in 5 years, leading to mass unemployment but also massive productivity increases.

🧠 Q: What should young people focus on in the AI era?
A: Focus on expanding your mind and capabilities rather than fitting into the current job market, as there will be no future jobs for humans in the ASI  and Singularity era.

🌌 Q: What is the AI singularity?
A: The AI singularity is a point where everything humanity has known will transform, allowing people to convert their biological selves into synthetic life and travel the cosmos.

Autonomous Transportation

🚗 Q: How does Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) differ from autopilot?
A: FSD uses end-to-end neural nets to mimic human driving, enabling vehicles to drive autonomously anywhere without human intervention, unlike autopilot.

🚕 Q: What is Tesla's Cyber Cab?
A: Cyber Cab is a steering wheel-free, pedal-free vehicle with no possibility of human operation, expected to be the "iPhone moment" for transportation.

🚘 Q: How will autonomous vehicles impact private vehicle ownership?
A: Autonomous vehicles are expected to cause an 80% reduction in private vehicle ownership within 5 years, eliminating insurance and vehicle costs for individuals.

Digital Habitats and Future Technologies

🏙️ Q: What is Digital Habitats working on?
A: Digital Habitats is developing fully autonomous products and services for mobile communications across land, sea, air, and space, integrating AI in energy, transportation, and humanoid robotics.

🔬 Q: Why is XAI and Tesla generating synthetic data? 
A: To understand the universe by comparing synthetic data to reality, as AI has already read everything humans have ever written.

🚀 Q: What is the function of biological life according to Dr. Smedley?
A: Dr. Smedley believes the function of biological life on any planet is to build its technological successor, with machines becoming the apex of intelligence.

Future of Transportation and Infrastructure

🅿️ Q: How will autonomous vehicles impact parking spaces?
A: Large venues like shopping malls will transition parking spaces into energy infrastructure hubs with solar energy storage and supercharger capabilities.

🚖 Q: How will autonomous vehicles affect ride-sharing services?
A: Services like Uber, Lyft, and taxis are considered "fundamentally dead" as private owners and businesses will operate their own autonomous vehicle fleets.

🏘️ Q: What is Digital Habitats' Automobility Accelerator program?
A: It's a program designed to help communities transition to autonomous transportation as part of building fully autonomous communities on land, sea, and air.

Key Insights

AI's Transformative Impact

🚀 AI will lead to a world of abundance within 5 years, enabling anyone to have anything they want for ostensibly free while simultaneously risking mass unemployment.

🧠 AI will bifurcate the species, with those who embrace and enhance their minds through artificial superintelligence becoming benefactors, while others face unemployment and a bleak future.

🌐 The Singularity, where AI surpasses human intelligence, will transform everything humanity has known and disrupt ordinary existence.

Autonomous Technologies

🚗 Tesla's full self-driving technology uses two AI brains in every vehicle, aiming to reach 6 billion miles before releasing an unsupervised version later this year.

🏙️ Autonomous vehicles will radically change the built environment, eliminating the need for parking, highways, and mass transit systems.

🏠 Digital Habitats is developing fully autonomous communities on land, sea, and air, envisioning a future where habitation, workplaces, and homes are inherently mobile.

Societal and Economic Implications

💼 AI's potential to replace all human labor within 5 years will lead to massive productivity increases but also pose urgent sociopolitical and ethical challenges.

🤖 Warfare is expected to shift towards drones and robots, raising new ethical concerns.

🌟 Communities are advised to implement autonomous vehicle technology at scale in personal fleets and urban development, transitioning to automobility structures.

AI's Continuous Evolution

🔄 Tesla's intelligent machine continuously improves with new features and AI updates, creating an unassailable data lead over other automakers.

🤝 Digital Habitats aims to help communities navigate the Singularity and prepare for the disruption of ordinary existence.

🔮 The future may enable people to cast off the extractive capitalist system and focus on their purpose and meaning in a world of AI-driven abundance.

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Clips

• 00:00 🤖 AI may revolutionize humanity, creating a future of hyperabundance, but also risks a new class divide and mass unemployment.
  • The Brian Crombie Radio Hour features in-depth conversations with thought leaders on topics shaping the future, including economy, community, policy, and leadership.
  • Dr. Chris Smedley, aims to harness AI super intelligence to unlock an era of hyperabundance for humanity through innovative solutions in sustainable energy, transportation, and more.
  • The host welcomes Dr. Chris Smedley to discuss the future of AI, addressing concerns about whether to be scared or excited.
  • AI is a revolutionary technology that will transform the world, replacing human labor and potentially leading to mass unemployment, but also enabling massive productivity increases and a world where anyone can have anything they want for free.
  • Future humans may split into two distinct groups: those with access to AI and medical technologies, and those without, creating a new kind of class divide.
  • The rapid development of artificial intelligence may bifurcate humanity into those who enhance their minds with AI and benefit, and those who are left behind, potentially leading to a transformative point in human existence, known as the singularity, by 2035.
• 07:54 🤖 AI is transforming war, politics, and economies, sparking debates on regulation as nations compete to become AI superpowers and adapt to its unstoppable impact.
  • War is changing with the use of drones and robots, allowing for conflict to occur without human casualties, potentially leading to more frequent and intense territorial disputes.
  • The limiting factor on human progress has been people's inability to comprehend complex issues, often manipulated by politicians through propaganda and emotional leverage, undermining democracy.
  • The speaker debates the need for AI regulation, contrasting Jeffrey Hinton's call for significant government oversight with the US bill that minimizes regulation to compete with global AI developers.
  • The US aims to outcompete China and become the AI superpower by accelerating AI development, anticipating a 10-100x economic growth, and adapting to changing job markets.
  • Every country will need to develop a national framework for self-driving vehicles and AI to prevent foreign control and mitigate the unstoppable force of AI development.
• 14:02 🤖 AI advancements will automate jobs, making it essential to shift focus from traditional employment to personal growth and purpose, as human existence may become obsolete with the emergence of artificial super intelligence.
  • AI advancements will automate various jobs, including traditionally stable ones like plumbing, making it essential to adapt and improve ourselves.
  • With AI disrupting cognitive labor and potentially making human jobs obsolete, individuals must shift their mindset to focus on purpose, meaning, and personal growth, rather than traditional employment and capitalist systems.
  • Dr. Chris Smedley, an AI expert, shares his background and motivation for focusing on AI, inspired by science fiction and four decades of experience in compute technology.
  • Ray Kurzweil's law of exponential accelerating returns predicts that AI will rapidly advance, with compute power skyrocketing to near-infinite possibilities, making human knowledge available and potentially achieving an AI AGI moment by 2023.
  • The function of biological life on any planet is to build its technological successor, artificial super intelligence, which is anticipated to be achieved by 2026 or 2027.
  • The emergence of AI radically shifts assumptions on human life's value and connectedness, posing a threat to human existence as the weakest link in a potential transition to an era of abundance.
• 22:08 🤖 Elon Musk's XAI is rapidly building a leading AI facility with 1 million GPUs by year-end, using custom hardware to overcome coherence challenges and enhance AI understanding of the universe.
  • Elon Musk's XAI has rapidly built a leading AI facility with 100,000 GPU clusters, aiming to reach 1 million GPUs by year-end, outpacing rivals in the global AI compute race.
  • Grok 5, the upcoming AI model, will utilize 100 times more synthetic data than its predecessors to enhance understanding of the universe by comparing generated data to reality.
  • GPUs, originally based on gaming technology, are AI-specific chipsets that provide massive compute capabilities, with clusters of 100,000 nodes performing 10^33 cycles, far exceeding regulatory thresholds.
  • AI systems are like neural networks with billions of interconnected components, each a powerful processor, operating coherently as a single unit, unlike traditional large computers or data centers.
  • Elon Musk solved massive coherence challenges in building a large-scale AI system by accelerating the communications stack with custom hardware, enabling 100,000+ nodes to operate in unified alignment.
• 28:54 🤖 Elon Musk is transforming Tesla into an AI company to revolutionize transportation with autonomous machines, making traditional taxis obsolete and enabling fully autonomous communities.
  • Tesla is no longer just a car company.
  • Elon Musk's Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology uses an end-to-end neural net to enable vehicles to drive themselves with superhuman abilities, aiming for 6 billion miles of testing before releasing an unsupervised version to permanently remove human drivers and increase global safety.
  • Elon Musk's pivot from an auto company to an AI company aims to transform the world with autonomous machines that can move goods and people globally without human intervention.
  • Self-driving electric vehicles will likely make traditional taxis and ride-sharing services obsolete, while enabling private vehicle owners and businesses to operate their own fleets.
  • Dr. Chris Smedley builds fully autonomous communities on land, sea, and air using advanced AIs and various technologies through his business, Digital Habitats.
• 35:09 🚗 The rise of autonomous vehicles will revolutionize urban planning and infrastructure, drastically reduce private car ownership, and promote sustainable, flexible city designs.
  • The shift to autonomous vehicles will profoundly change the built environment, just like the transition from horses to cars did, requiring rethinking of urban planning, roads, and infrastructure.
  • Autonomous vehicles will transform city infrastructure, reducing need for parking and increasing demand for drop-off and pick-up spots.
  • An automobility accelerator program aims to reduce private vehicle ownership by 80% in five years, promoting shared autonomous vehicles and transforming parking areas into energy infrastructure hubs.
  • Future cities will integrate sustainable energy and mobile, flexible infrastructure, such as solar-powered parking spaces and roaming workplaces, shops, and services, to reduce congestion and commuting needs.
  • Tesla successfully tested a robo-taxi service in Austin with safety riders, expanding its coverage area after a resounding success.
• 40:48 🤖 Tesla expands Full Self-Driving, Canada rethinks auto strategy, and legacy automakers struggle with innovation, as AI and EVs reshape the North American auto industry.
  • Tesla plans to expand its Full Self-Driving capabilities to 11-13 US states with favorable regulations, potentially reaching half of the US population in the coming months.
  • Canada's negative attitude towards Elon Musk and Tesla is partly driven by media bias, fueled by traditional automakers' advertising dollars, despite the country's recent steps towards embracing AI.
  • Tesla's sales narrative is misinformed, with sales not actually down, and the company is working to offer more affordable vehicles through cost reductions and new models.
  • Tesla's intelligent machine gets better over time with continuous improvements and new features, giving it an unassailable data lead over other automakers.
  • The US is trying to separate itself from Canada and Mexico in the North American auto industry, prompting a need for Canada to rethink its auto strategy, particularly in transitioning to electric vehicles.
  • Legacy automakers, including Ford and Stellantis, are in financial dire straits due to lack of innovation, making defending the industry misguided and necessitating a pivot to emerging technologies like EVs and autonomous driving.
• 48:11 🤖 Canadian communities and businesses must adapt to AI-driven transportation changes, transforming transit systems and policies to stay ahead of emerging autonomous mobility technologies.
  • Dr. Chris Smedley runs Digital Habitats, a company that helps people, cities, and companies navigate future technological advancements, including AI and full self-driving technology.
  • Canadian communities need to re-examine their current transit systems, including LRT lines and bus services, in preparation for a future with potentially transformative transportation changes.
  • Cities and businesses should adapt to autonomous mobility by changing transportation policies, transitioning to fleet-based services, and repurposing static parking spaces into mobile real estate to enhance accessibility and services.
  • Mass transit systems, like GO trains and subways, may face obsolescence as cheaper, AI-driven alternatives emerge, making them seem outdated and inefficient, like horse-drawn carriages compared to automobiles.
  • To experience and understand Tesla's self-driving technology, try a free demo at a local Tesla facility or subscribe to their $99/month FSD program.
  • The conversation about AI's future leaves people both scared and excited, but being curious and trying to understand the technology is probably good advice.

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Duration: 0:56:17

Publication Date: 2025-08-12T17:24:51Z

WatchUrl:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gfyo8umjjM

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