Moonshots with Peter Diamandis - AI Entrepreneurs Q&A: How Every Industry Is About to Be Transformed by Humanoids w/ Vinod Khosla & Brett Adcock | EP #160
Episode Date: April 2, 2025In this episode, recorded at the 2025 Abundance Summit, Vinod, Brett, & Peter dive into a Q&A on the future of humanoid robots, transport, and more. Recorded on March 11th, 2025 Views are my own thou...ghts; not Financial, Medical, or Legal Advice. Vinod Khosla is an Indian-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982, serving as its first chairman and CEO. In 2004, he founded Khosla Ventures, focusing on technology and social impact investments. As of January 2025, his net worth is estimated at $9.2 billion. He is known for his bold bets on transformative innovations in fields like AI, robotics, healthcare, and clean energy. With a deep belief in abundance and the power of technology to solve global challenges, Khosla continues to shape the future through visionary investing. ​Brett Adcock is an American technology entrepreneur and the founder of Figure, an AI robotics company developing general-purpose humanoid robots designed to perform human-like tasks in both industrial and home settings. In 2023, he also founded Cover, an AI security company focused on building weapon detection systems for schools. Previously, Brett founded Archer Aviation, an urban air mobility company that went public at a valuation of $2.7 billion, and Vettery, a machine learning-based talent marketplace acquired for $110 million. Learn about Figure: https://www.figure.ai/ Learn more about Vinod: https://www.khoslaventures.com/ Learn more about Abundance360: https://bit.ly/ABUNDANCE360 For free access to the Abundance Summit Summary click: diamandis.com/breakthroughs ____________ I only endorse products and services I personally use. To see what they are, please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: Get started with Fountain Life and become the CEO of your health: https://fountainlife.com/peter/ AI-powered precision diagnosis you NEED for a healthy gut: https://www.viome.com/peter Get 15% off OneSkin with the code PETER at  https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpod ____________ I send weekly emails with the latest insights and trends on today’s and tomorrow’s exponential technologies. Stay ahead of the curve, and sign up now: Blog _____________ Connect With Peter: Twitter Instagram Youtube Moonshots
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You're going to see robots first in the workforce in like vast numbers.
You're going to see them in the home and you're going to start seeing them in space.
This will all happen.
Brett Adcock.
Space would be fantastic for humanoids.
It's just like such a pernicious place for humans.
And Vinod Kozlov.
Let me give you my most optimistic view of acceleration.
The future of work, surgery and space travel.
You see robot surgeons in the future being the baseline?
I think the beauty in a humanoid is that we really want to be general purpose.
Customization generally means more cost.
What is the role of universal basic income in the economy of the future?
I do think we will have to deal with that issue through policy.
I don't think the current capitalist system unmodified will work.
This is your time. Your time. We'll take questions at the mic. We'll take
questions on Slido. Let's begin right here.
So I'm Mike Wandler. I've got a company called Evercore Energy that
I just started to innovate energy. And I was really focused on
micro reactors for heavy industrial and mining. So the the
fusion really changes that. I hadn't
heard that that was going to be available in the next five years. What
companies should I watch and maybe pivot my business model? Look, there's
a lot of fusion companies, but there's good half dozen efforts that are high
credibility. So that's why I'm pretty confident.
Commonwealth, Helion? There's others, you know, there's Type 1, there's
Rialta, there's just in fact every country has their own effort just like
every there's sovereign AI, there's sovereign fusion technology coming out. So my thing, the only comment I would make
is in all these areas of massive change,
you have to look at regulatory forces
and political pressures, right?
The Screen Actors Guild fought the use of AI
and their customers will almost certainly go out of business
if they comply with that agreement.
That's what will happen.
So regulatory matters and in fission specifically,
I think no matter how safe you are,
and we are investors in Terra Power with Bill Gates,
what will happen is it will take longer to site a power plant because of community objections, environmentalist objections,
NIMBYism, all that, then it takes to develop a fusion technology from scratch. So that's the situation.
That's why I've become a little less bullish on fission reactors.
I would love to see it,
but I don't see it happening rapidly,
while I see an easy path to building 5,000 fusion power plants by 2050.
Maybe more.
Amazing.
Let's go to John.
Hi, my name is John.
This is for Brett.
How soon do you think that there will be the opportunity to have robots in the field for
the trades?
So I'm in an auto repair business.
I want to send a technician out.
And secondly, will there be the opportunity to beta and partner with expertise that we
have in that with the company like yours?
Yeah, we made the decision pretty early on to pick like the minimal amount of
companies to ship like a certain number, which is for us is like magic numbers,
a hundred thousand robots in two.
We have that now with our first two groups.
So we, and then we have like, we're relatively young.
We're still under three years old teams, like a few hundred engineers.
We just don't have the, uh, like the truth is, so we just don't have like, we're relatively young, we're still under three years old, team's like a few hundred engineers. We just don't have the truth, so we just don't have
like the bandwidth a lot of times to do a lot of extra work outside what we have.
But we're doing a lot of work right now in like other areas like healthcare, construction,
other industries, like obviously the home. So I think for us like to extend the,
there's like a mechanical need for mechanical human.
And to be putting those, we want to be understanding and looking at it more.
So yeah, hopefully it seems like a really exciting, hopefully it's an area we can spend
time in the next few years.
I hope it is too.
I would love it.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Amazing.
Steve.
Hi, it's Steve Strickland.
First of all, to both of you, thank you for the wealth you've created for many in this room and certainly around the the planet
But for Brett a question when you start reaching smaller businesses
Where you're placing humanoids will you allow?
customization of the chassis
to meet the need of the particular user I
Think the beauty in a humanoid is that we really want to be general purpose and to meet the need of the particular user?
I think the beauty in a humanoid is that we really want to be general purpose.
And when we start customizing, we start making things really specialized. It's really when you get caught in this problem of high NRE scenarios,
it's really hard to keep it reliable, to maintain it, to design it.
Then we have multiple different product paths.
And then the AI system, if it's not doing well,
like with transfer learning across
those different tasks now, the embodiment's
different, the observation space of the robot's different,
it becomes really challenging.
I think my vision for this is we have one single hardware
platform that can do everything a human can.
We move our roadmap to be more like a human.
We move like a human.
We can touch and feel things more like a human over time.
So our roadmap's kind of drawing us down that curve.
And we won't do every single thing in the world, but we want to be able to do a majority
of what humans can do with one hardware system.
That's how we're going to get the cost down to like $20,000 levels.
And that's how we're going to get the intelligence up to allow it to do that end to end.
So I think in the foreseeable future, we do not plan to make any hardware adjustments
to the main chassis,
but we do plan to make product revisions
to be able to operate more and more like a human over time.
Okay, thanks.
Yep.
The note on slide over here,
the question is if electrical generation is taken care of,
will there still require additional investments
in transmission line, distribution, transformers?
I'm thinking about need for reasonably close to room temperature superconductors and such.
So we will need transmission lines, but let me suggest the following.
There'll be different size fusion reactors.
So we have commonwealth fusion, which is building a 500 megawatt reactor.
We have Realtor Fusion that's building 50 megawatt reactors.
Now, you can put 50 megawatt reactors in what is today a substation.
What does it do? Eliminate the need for transmission.
So we will need more transmission.
I'm not saying we won't,
but my bet is citing more reactors in more locations
will be an alternative we have.
So I am pretty optimistic that will happen.
I wanna just add a comment on Brett's answer on the last question.
Yes.
Customization generally means more cost.
And small business, you know, Henry Ford said, you can have any color as long as it's black.
The point was reduce the number of SKUs, reduce the cost, increase the volume, and that's the way to make them really affordable.
Now, there will be specialized robots that will do other things and have more capability,
especially when you go beyond human capability.
So, when you go to superhuman capability, being able to lift a car without a jack.
You may need more specialized operations. So I think it'll look very much like the auto industry.
It'll diversify some, but the highest volume things
will be the cheapest and most applicable.
And the world is designed around human form factors.
So they'll fit in many more places
without needing to change the environment.
And people will change some environments.
Everybody, I hope you're enjoying this episode.
Did you know that we're likely to see
as many as 10 billion humanoid robots by 2040?
And that Brett Adcock, the CEO of Figure,
anticipates they'll have robots in our home in the next two by 2040. And that Brett Adcock, the CEO of Figure, anticipates they'll
have robots in our home in the next two to three years.
How about Max Hodak's new form of BCI called Biohybrid Interfaces that could offer millions
of connections between your neocortex and the cloud?
Then there's Michael Andreg whose efforts at Eon is focusing on uploading the human connectome to the cloud by 2030
These aren't science fiction scenarios. There are serious efforts underway today
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breakthroughs. Let's go to Mike Five. Hey, Peter. My name is Mark Donovan, founder of the Denver
Basic Income Project and my moonshot is to create affordable living as a service, housing, food, energy, data and transportation for $250 a month by the end of the decade.
Vinod, you started by asking how will we pay people in the future?
And I haven't heard anyone answer that yet.
Yesterday Cathy Wood said that technology will create more jobs than it displaces, which
has been true historically, but I've been assuming this will not be true with AI and
humanoid robots.
What do you think about that and what is the role of universal basic income in the economy which has been true historically, but I've been assuming this will not be true with AI and humanoid robots.
What do you think about that?
And what is the role of universal basic income
in the economy of the future?
So for a longer dissertation on that,
I wrote a 25 page piece on AI.
Will it lead to dystopia or utopia?
So it's on our website, you can Google it.
Which one did you choose? Clearly Utopia.
Okay, just checking.
I do think there's dystopic elements, but those will be societal choices.
We can go down certain paths and not go down others,
but there's a 25-page explanation of that.
What I would say is, I'm sorry, I've got your original question.
Do you, UBI, is it coming? Is it an important? Job displacement? Is it going?
Yeah. Are more jobs going to be placed? And what's the role of UBI?
So I addressed that question extensively in that paper, and when what happens.
So what happens the next five years?
What happens in the 2030s?
And what happens in the 2040s?
So I cover all this in this paper.
Job displacement will happen.
In 2016, I wrote a paper on this, I think it was in Forbes or Fortune, I forget.
It was a long 5,000 word treatise on that.
I do a lot of writing.
And my view was AI will lead to great abundance, great productivity growth, great GDP growth,
everything economists love, and
increasing income disparity.
That was about eight or 10 years ago I wrote that piece.
And I do think we will have to deal with that issue through policy.
And that's why I think societies will make different choices in different countries. It'll be a country
by country choice of what we allow, how do we plan to share the abundance more
broadly. I don't think the current capitalist system unmodified will work
in that environment. So I always say I'm a techno optimist like other
people but with care and caring.
Care being on safety, which is also going to be an issue and caring for those left behind.
Thank you Vinod.
Thank you.
Naiba, how do you pronounce your name properly?
Nabiha.
Nabiha.
Hi Vinod.
One of our portfolio companies.
Yes.
It's great to see you Vinod.
Thank you for supporting my journey.
It's been awesome.
Would love to get both of your thoughts on how space exploration and colonization is
going to evolve with humanoid robots.
I'm getting pretty excited about it.
Always wanted to be an astronaut.
That hasn't happened.
But how do you think this space is going to move in the next three to five years?
Very cool. Oh, yeah, thanks.
We wrote about this when we started the company.
Space would be fantastic for humanoids.
It's just such a pernicious place for humans.
I think about colonization, exploring the stars.
It'd be great to send mechanical embodied agents out to the outer space
and have them really help us there. And I think you start thinking about like really exciting
future where we're like living off planet and how that would work. So I really hope like
even in the near term, we're like helping to deploy robots there. There's been robots developed with
NASA that are up like ISS and have been up before. So it was like pretty good precedent here. I think
it's like a little bit,
all of this for me comes on like,
where is it on the adoption curve?
You're gonna see robots first in the workforce
in like vast numbers.
You're gonna see them in the home
and you're gonna start seeing them in space.
And they're kind of like almost like,
not quite sequentially,
but like you're gonna happen to see them
in certain places first in the higher quantities.
And over time, this will all happen.
Like we'll have robots colonizing planets,
we'll have special purpose robots
maybe helping out those fully autonomously
on Mars and the moon.
So it's gonna be extremely exciting.
It's gonna take some time.
We gotta work on this on the ground here on Earth first,
but we would love to play a part in that.
I don't know what you think, Vinod.
So I would agree with one caveat.
People think we have to go to the moon or space
or mine asteroids to get resources.
That I don't think will be the reason we do it.
It'll be because we love to explore.
And I think that'd be the reason to go to space.
I don't think Sam would mind me telling
this story. I was just talking to Sam and he asked me a question I hadn't thought about.
When will the first self-replicating AI probe leave planet Earth? And I said 15 years and his
answer to me was,
you're way too conservative,
not something people call me very often.
So it's fun fact.
Amazing.
All right, let's go to Orland on Zoom.
Orland, if you're there, what's your question?
Hello, this is for Brett.
So I mean the agricultural business.
So when should we expect the humanized in agriculture,
like working in the farms on the rain and sun?
Was that working?
Yeah, Brett, so when do you expect to see humanized robots
working in the fields in farming,
given all weather conditions?
Totally.
I actually grew up on a farm, like generation corn and soybeans agriculture farm in Illinois.
So it's kind of close to my heart.
So I think maybe similar type of through line as last response, robots will start indoors.
It's better for IP, it, like it's easier for like,
because of weather reasons, other things.
And we'll start seeing robots from there, go outside.
Dude, there's tons of decent work outside
we would love to do.
I would say it gets harder there than probably indoors.
All this is happening in the next like 10 years.
Like we're seeing robots inside workforce, outdoors.
We're seeing robots in the home.. We're seeing robots in the home.
Hopefully, we're seeing some replicating robots
out in the space.
That'd be really cool to have that.
That'd be incredible.
So I think for us, we're focused right now
on trying to get to 100,000 units shipped.
That's where our near-term goals.
We need a certain amount of momentum here
from the business to get, start getting costs down,
data pipeline built and robots out in the world
working fully autonomously with no human interventions.
That for us will be indoors.
The next chapter in our book will be the home outdoors.
I think all this happened in the next 10 years.
Yeah.
I would add the following.
I think in the next five years,
we will demonstrate robots can work in the farms.
The capability will be there,
but there's a big difference as we are talking.
This generally applies to all the technologies
we are talking about.
When we demonstrate the capability,
when it has 1% penetration,
is when I consider the
job done, but there's a societal change matrix that can take a long time for full adoption.
But so keep that in mind with respect to all these technologies, including farm robots.
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Now back to the episode.
Amika.
Thank you. This is highly inspiring. This is phenomenal. My moonshot is to advance the adoption of sustainable habitat for human beings all over the planet.
I have two questions, one for each of you. In terms of robotics, do you currently or are you planning to have some kind of policy on military applications.
Where does that go?
Because once you have humanoids, I mean.
Great question, what's the second question?
And the second question, in terms of fusion
and power grids and stuff like that,
if my moonshot is sustainable habitat for humanity,
is there any thought given to what might happen
if we have a solar flare or some
kind of serious event that could wipe out grids as we have them today through massive
EMP or whatever? How do we protect our future power grids from that?
I'll ask for short answers. I want to try and get a few more questions in. So I know
you have a very clear answer on that.
Yeah, we won't do anything military related at all. It's in our company mandate.
I wrote a line in 2022.
I think it severely hurt the kind of civilian commercial
market that we're in.
We always have like a little Terminator vibe
going on with humanoids.
So you really want to stay clear of that in our mind.
And the market's much bigger on the non-military side.
Binod, fragile grid.
I've sort of already answered that between super hot geothermal,
which applies to most of the Western United States
and fusion large reactors, small reactors,
I think will be in good shape.
We still have to build more transmission transmission but my bet is with energy becoming
cheaper you'll be drilling tunnels under the ground to do transmission lines.
Against that, fantastic. All right, we're going to go to Cole on zoom and then we'll go to Z next after that. Cole?
Yeah, Brett, again under the purpose, or under the general purpose, guys,
I guess, one of the most common things that humans do are drive
vehicles. So it's a big ask to ask all agriculture and
businesses to go to self driving vehicles does figure plan to
have these humanoids be able to drive a vehicle and do all those
things that go along with it.
Yeah, one of my dreams is like have my robots fly an archer aircraft.
Like that'd be, we need pilots, right?
It's pilot shortage.
Um, I think like one thing that Vinod did a good job on is there's this.
Like, there's like the ability for the robots to do it and demonstrate it.
And there's ability to do
like actually integrate this into society at scale
and where the focus lies,
which is like, those could be on different timescales.
So we can definitely show like a farming robot,
perhaps even a robot to have a car down the street
or something like that.
And then what we actually plan to do
in terms of like where production is heading,
where the clients are at, where we're shipping into.
Listen, on a long enough timeframe,
I think this human robots will do everything
a human can.
Physically.
Like I think they'll say.
Yeah, hey, Brett.
Your talk has been really inspiring
and I was really excited about the future
of humanoid robots and then I thought about something
quite disturbing which I wanted to ask your thoughts on.
So you see in the future, humanoid robots
are obviously gonna be connected to the grid, right?
So what's stopping a malicious hacker, you know,
hacking the system and instead of making the robot do dishes,
it could in theory make the robot grab a knife and stab their host to death during their sleep.
So that was quite disturbing and I would love to see how...
You'd love to experiment with?
No, no, I love to hear your thoughts on how you prevent that.
Sorry.
Yeah, no, it's great.
It's like just watch the Black Mirror episode and came in here.
What happens here?
Listen, I think one is we treat cybersecurity, local security
in the robot extremely important.
We have a whole team around it.
It's not like one solve here to say,
oh, we're going to do this and leave everything
on non-virtual memory on firmware, and it'll be fine.
But we also do that.
That will help.
I think in general, our robot doesn't
need to be connected to a network.
So the Helix video you saw, other robots
in the kitchen doing it, those are fully embedded neural
network to live on GPU.
The robot wasn't actually connected to any network. Doesn't need to be connected to any network. We can
basically see through cameras, we have battery power, we can run those weights through a
GPU onboard, and we can output actions and torques to the motors. So I think in general,
we ultimately want to make sure nobody can get root access to any kernels in the system.
We want to set everything in terms of what the robot ultimately can never do in non-biotile like memory on
Firmware what you do today
So you want to think about it like ultimately comes down to like the robot ultimately can't like do certain certain actions
Yeah, so trust him. Let's go to Carti
Hey guys
Thank you so much for your wisdom Brett Brett, you're a moonshot venture
builder. Vinod, you're a moonshot investor. Similar to the question that's
actually sitting up there, voted up. What's your advice to moonshot
ventures and their founders and their teams in terms of building a roadmap
when the underlying technologies or even the convergence of the technology doesn't quite exist yet? You know I do believe companies are more successful if
they raise in stages because it puts more pressure to achieve milestones. The more comfortable you feel, the less you will explore the options and
look for better ways.
Do you think that companies can be overcapitalized though and become lazy?
My experience, I did this analysis a few years ago. The less money a company raised,
the more likely it was we were to make more absolute dollars.
I'm not even talking about rates of return.
Why?
Because they spent a lot more time
examining their assumptions and testing them in increments.
So this is very counterintuitive.
It's the opposite of the soft bank strategy.
Yes.
It's like stressing a vine to get a fine wine.
Yeah.
It's like stressing a vine to get fine wine, detect problems early, test everything.
It's not to say you can't do it if you raise a lot of money and hopefully, Brett,
doing that, but it generally tends to be people get complacent and complacency is the enemy of
innovation. Yeah, and I would say raising a lot of money early, later to scale when you have a path.
But there's time you need money to scale and that's when you need it. Mark.
Thank you. With all the money being invested in AI,
what's your thinking about the fact or the possibility that it becomes kind of a
commoditized service as opposed to something for which people are willing to pay
the amounts of money that is going into it?
Don't listen to the press you read, right?
If a multi-trillion dollar economy is to be created,
you're going to see massive opportunities.
Take Brett's opportunity.
If there's an industry larger than the auto industry
in the relatively next two decades,
then it doesn't matter how much you invest.
The opportunity is large.
I would say the following.
With what I see in the market, most investments,
most companies will lose money.
The vast majority, maybe 80%.
But more money will be made than lost
because of the exponential nature of the winner's outcome.
And so by a large, I believe press likes to write
short-term headlines, so you have to ignore them
and focus on, this is why I say I only care about 2030.
I don't care about what the stock market's doing today.
It's largely irrelevant to 2030.
Is it a winner take all market?
I think this will be a fairly diversified market
and there'll be many winners.
There'll be probably three, four, five in each area
with a power log distribution of outcomes, but there will be more than one
winner.
How many robot companies do you imagine?
I could see half a dozen given the size of the market, probably less than the number
of car companies today, if I'm looking 20 years out.
Brad, how about you? I think I agree that it's not going to be, it's kind of winner take most here.
It's like billions of dollars need to be invested.
You need to make it a very high rate, which the manufacturing is very difficult.
You need to do a lot of data collection.
The robots are, it's just a hard business.
You look at any deep tech group, like, you know, EVTOL, like satellite or whatever,
you know, space, AVs, you just don't have a lot of groups
out there that really make it.
And Vinod's right, 95% of all of these go bankrupt through this whole process.
So it's just, it's tough, but I would say a few.
Let's go to one last question here, Yosef.
Thanks Peter.
This question is supposed to both Vinod and to Brad.
The twin forces with critical healthcare worker shortages as well as three generations of
boomers coming to the healthcare system.
The other robots we see are primarily for social engagement purposes.
There's a question online about working with elder loneliness.
My question is in regards to bedside care and direct patient care with invasive procedures,
for example, nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists,
you see robots being a viable option in the future
to replace humans.
Can I twist a little bit?
Do you see robot surgeons in the future being the baseline?
I do.
Yeah.
Look, health care expertise will be free in the next couple of years, like well before
2030. Interventional medicine, so doing a cath procedure, probably take a little bit
longer. And the biggest pole in that tent is the FDA, so I'd mentioned regulatory earlier.
So I expect we're more than 10 years away from unsupervised robot
surgery, whether we are 15 or 20 years away depends on regulatory. But I want to
end on two ideas. When we talk about technology development, there's two things to worry about.
One is safety.
We haven't talked about it.
I think in the next three to five years, we will make massive leaps in the explainability of models.
So I suspect in two to three years, you'll start to hear about this is no longer a black box, no longer a parrot, all the stuff you
hear.
The characteristic of our technologies is when you identify the problem, somebody starts
working on it.
And there's a real safety risk and really valuable people like Yoshua Banjo or the people I respect and Jeff Hinton
have surfaced the question of AI safety.
I think it's a real problem to worry about,
but I do believe the optimistic part of me says,
I'm already seeing business plans on explaining
how these models are coming to their conclusion.
And so that will hopefully get solved.
So that's one on the caution side.
Let me give you my most optimistic view of acceleration.
Whatever number of scientists we have on the,
I mean in America or on the planet,
within five years, we'll multiply that by 10 or 100 X.
Why?
Because we will have AI chemists, AI PhD chemists,
AI physics.
Biologists.
Biologists, physicists.
The acceleration ahead of us
from AI expertise,
not only in the delivery of care like a doctor,
but in research where AI scientists is doing hypothesis
and then testing it themselves
without needing any human intervention.
And it's 10 times cheaper and 100 times more abundant in the amount of research.
I don't think people have started to imagine that acceleration of science and technology.
It really is a rapid intelligence explosion and science explosion. And Brett, I imagine
that we're going to see these AI models designing experiments, the robots implementing them and running, you know, almost lights out 24-7 and accelerating all of this.
You agree?
Yeah.
Listen, like the both on the physical side of the world and the digital, like these agents will do more and more of what we do.
Yeah.
That's what's the trend.
So that's a great optimistic note.
Let's end it there.
We're going to have science support the hell science, the shit out of all this
stuff, let's leave it that way.
Give it up for Vinod and Brett.
Everybody hope you're enjoying this episode.
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