Iwas sitting at my desk watching an OpenAI livestream just before Halloween, approaching the 58-minute mark of a pretty unspectacular 62-minute broadcast. I'll confess I wasn't super dialed in by this point. Let's wrap it up, folks, I'm ready for lunch!

OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki had just finished talking about AI's role in causing mass layoffs when CEO Sam Altman suddenly turned to him and asked: "What do you think meaning will look like? What do you think the jobs of the future will look like? How do you think when AI automates a lot of the current things, how do you think we'll derive our fulfillment and spend our time?"

The question blindsided me. I'd not expected a billionaire CEO to ponder such a question. And it got my complete attention.

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