you famously said when you were younger there were five problems that you thought were most important for you to work on um if you were 22 today what were the five problems that you would think about working on b um well first of all i think um if somebody is doing something that is useful to the rest of society i think that's a good thing like it doesn't have to change the world like you know um if you're doing something that has high value to people um and frankly even if it's something if it's like
um just a little game um or you know the some improvement in photo sharing or something if it if it has a small amount of good uh for a large number of people um that's i mean i think that's that's fine like stuff doesn't need to change the world just to be good um uh but you know in terms of things that i think are most likely to affect the the future of humanity i think um ai is probably the single biggest item in the near term that's likely to affect humanity so it's very important
that we have the advent of ai in a good way that that is something that if you if you could look into the crystal ball and see the future you would like you would like that outcome um because it is something that could go um could go wrong um as we've talked about many times um and so we really need to make sure it goes right um that's that's i think ai we're working on ai and making sure it's a great future that's that's the most important thing i think right now um the most pressing
item sec uh then um obviously anything to do with with genetics um if you can actually solve um genetic diseases um if you can um prevent dementia or alzheimer's or something like that that with genetic reprogramming that would be wonderful so i think there's genetics it might be the sort of second most important item i think um having a high bandwidth interface to the brain like um we're currently bandwidth limited we have a digital tertiary self in the form of our email capabilities like computers phones applications uh we're effectively superhuman but we're extremely bad with
constrained in that interface between the cortex and your sort of that tertiary digital form of yourself and um helping solve that uh bandwidth constraint would would be i think very important for the future as well