If Thrun is right about AI &quot;outsmarting people in every dimension&quot;, how in the world could more entertaining job training videos organized into &quot;nanodegrees&quot; help us at all? I know this article was just a free ad for Udacity so he had to say self-serving things, but do you think the dude really believes this???<p>As others have pointed out, the real problem before us this century is to <i>somehow</i> decouple having a basic standard of living from performing work---more specifically from &quot;contributing to productivity&quot;. My amateur guess is that even with our current state of food and energy production, the biggest barrier isn&#x27;t the massively difficult economic and organizational problem, but advancing as a culture beyond our entrenched moral assumption that the means for basic living is something to be earned rather than a human right.