{"id":211868,"date":"2025-04-19T21:12:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T02:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/what-if-everything-changed-robin-hanson-tedxnorrkoping"},"modified":"2025-04-19T21:12:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T02:12:01","slug":"what-if-everything-changed-robin-hanson-tedxnorrkoping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/what-if-everything-changed-robin-hanson-tedxnorrkoping","title":{"rendered":"What If Everything Changed? | Robin Hanson | TEDxNorrk\u00f6ping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gd9GOoITfXY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Whar may happen when the first truly smart robots appear, based on brain emulations or ems. Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, and you have a robot brain, but recognizably human.<\/p>\n<p>Train them to do some job and copy it a million times: an army of workers is at your disposal. When they can be made cheaply.<br \/> within perhaps a century, they will displace humans in most jobs.<br \/> In this new economic era, the world economy may double in size every few weeks.<br \/> Applying decades of expertise in physics, computer science, and economics.<br \/> and use ofstandard theories indicate a detailed picture of a world dominated by ems.<\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor of Economics, and received his Ph.D in 1997 in social sciences from Caltech. Joined George Mason\u2019s economics faculty in 1999 after completing a two year post-doc at U.C Berkely. His major fields of interest include health policy, regulation, and formal political theory. Recent book: The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule The Earth. Oxford University Press, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whar may happen when the first truly smart robots appear, based on brain emulations or ems. Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, and you have a robot brain, but recognizably human. Train them to do some job and copy it a million times: an army [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,1495,219,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-health","category-physics","category-policy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}