Video course · 9 chapters · 13 min · certificate
How to Survive the Next 2 Years of AI
Nick Saraev teaches practical ways to handle short-term AI security risks, mid-term job and income changes, and long-term identity shifts. The chapters cover a security checklist, personal evals, ownership, distribution, physical work, priors, and relationships.
What you'll learn
- Identify the three AI risk timeframes and their focus areas.
- Create a short-term physical security and preparedness checklist.
- Build a personal eval to test AI capabilities against your own work.
- Explain why ownership, distribution, and physical-world work reduce income risk.
- Reframe personal identity and beliefs for a post-AGI world.
- Strengthen relationships as a durable personal and financial asset.
Chapters
9 chapters · 13:19-
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01Risk Overview Members
Three Types of AI Risk
Short-term risk is physical security, mid-term risk is jobs and income, long-term risk is beliefs and identity.
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2:16
02Preparedness Members
The Security Checklist
Store two weeks of food and water, keep cash and first aid, set up a local LLM plus Wikipedia, and use MFA.
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1:00
03Job Risk Members
Mid-Term Risk: Jobs and Income
AI-exposed employment for 22 to 25-year-olds has dropped below less exposed jobs, and juniors lose their old path upward.
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1:18
04Evals Members
Use AI in Everything
Build a personal eval of 10 to 15 standardized tasks and test every new model yourself instead of relying on second-hand opinions.
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1:25
05Ownership Members
Own Something
AI makes labor cheaper, so own infrastructure, land, compute, or a business, and consider debt-financed ownership.
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1:41
06Distribution Members
Build Distribution and Physical-World Work
Distribution is a transferable resource that follows you, physical-world work is more insulated, and the long-term risk is beliefs and identity.
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1:39
07Identity Members
Your Identity Is Not Your Job
Define yourself by character, beliefs, and principles instead of economic output, and understand how much the world may change.
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1:21
08Beliefs Members
Reexamine Your Priors
Priors are beliefs held before new evidence arrives, and the video urges you to re-examine them before stranger post-AGI changes arrive.
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1:02
09Relationships Members
Invest in People
Strong relationships improve outcomes in emergencies, job changes, and a more automated future where humanity becomes scarce.