What these field medalists are saying is a precursor to what most people will feel in the coming time. Humans want to be useful. We're primed by evolution to want to feel our effort will lead to valuable outcomes. We want to climb mountains and not just be helicoptered to their summits. The real crisis is the deflation of motivation AI will cause in humans. Why aspire to do intellectually hard things when you'd be outdone by compute owners willing to spend a billion tokens on the same problem? Superintelligence will create superabundance BUT: - We don't know how to control it safely - The world isn't setup for social security required to offset job losses There's a reason why AI insiders are calling for pausing or slowing down further AI developments. Our society needs time to make sense of this monumental shift.