![]() Interviewer: So one of the, I think, most common questions I hear ambitious young people ask is, "I want to be the next Elon Musk. And helping solve that bandwidth constraint would be, I think, very important in the future as well. But we're extremely bandwidth-constrained in that interface between the cortex and that tertiary digital form of yourself. We have a digital tertiary self in the form of out email capabilities, our computers, phones, applications. And then, I th ink, having a high-ban dwidth interfa ce to the b rain. So I think genetics might be the sort of second most important item. If you can actually solve genetic diseases, if you can prevent dementia or Alzheimer's or something like that with genetic reprograming, that would be wonderful. Then, I would say anything to do with genetics. ![]() That's the most important thing, I think, right now, the most pressing item. So that's AI, working on AI and making sure it's great future. And so, we really need to make sure it goes right. It's something that, if you could look into the crystal ball and to the future, you would like that outcome because it is something that could go wrong, as we've talked about many times. So, it's very important that we have the advent of AI in a good way. But in terms of things that I think are most like to affect the future of humanity, I think AI is probably the single biggest item in the near-term that's likely to affect humanity. Stuff doesn't need to change the world just to be good. And frankly, even if it's something, if it's like just a little game or some improvement in photo sharing or something, if it has a small amount of good for a large number of people, I think that's fine. If you make something that has high value to people. Like, it doesn't have to change the world. If you were 22 today, what would the five problems that you would think about working on be? Elon: Well, first of all, I think if somebody is doing something that is useful to the rest of society, I think that's a good thing. To start off, could you tell us, you famously said, when you were younger, there were five problems that you thought were most important for you to work on. Interviewer: So, we want to spend the time today talking about your view of the future and what people should work on. ![]()
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