2026 Predictions: AI Automates Knowledge Work, Autonomous Robots & AI CEO Billionaires | EP #217

29:41What do these jobs practically look like? How can we have a safety net for people? And where is value going to be generated and coming from in society? And then how do we apportion it? Like this is the most important question of next year from a societal perspective. It's why the XPRIZE is so important. The social contract is being shredded right now, and we need to rebuild it in a very rapid way. Which XPRIZE? And frankly, scale it up. I'd like to see a thousand. The abundance XPRIZE, thinking about UBS, Universal Basic Services. I mean, it's the only model that it looks like could be the path forward.

30:15I imagine a near-term future where we see a thousand or a million XPRIZE. Yeah. I mean, so there were two different points here. One is people can start to pursue their own grand challenges if they don't have to do the menial labor or work. The second point that Salim was bringing up, there was recently at Visioneering proposed a universal basic services. Basically, for$250 a month, you get food, water, housing, bandwidth, electricity. and that gives you a stability where you can start to now think about what to do instead of where to get a roof over your head. And let's look at the history here.

30:51We've typically seen XPRIZE as won between four to seven years after announcing it, right? Getting to$250 a month for housing, electricity, food, health care is an unbelievable number. If we can get there in the next few years, we unleash humanity the most incredible level. This is why everybody is so optimistic. We're so optimistic on this podcast. People accuse us of being radical optimists. That's why when you can get the cost down that low, everything is possible. This episode is brought to you by Blitzy, autonomous software development with infinite code context. Blitzy uses thousands of specialized AI agents that think for hours to understand enterprise scale code bases with millions of lines of code.

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32:17Visit blitzy.com to schedule a demo and start building with Blitzy today. All right, moving on to prediction number seven from DB2. Dave, read your headline and tell us what it means. 18-year-old founder Brendan Gourmet becomes billionaire with his N4Q2 company. N4Q2 is the email address of a guy who worked at the Naval Surface Warfare Center. And if you don't get it, you're a saint. And Brendan Gourmet is obviously Brendan Foodie. So, you know, Brendan started his company became a paper billionaire and a liquid centimillionaire probably before age 20 doing rlhf and if you asked any random person on the planet three years ago what's rlhf 99 point something percent would say i have no idea what you just said so here it is minting billionaires along with rag and and laura and sft and qkv or kv caching all these new acronyms come into the world and you look at legacy businesses, accounting, legal, whatever, the idea that you would get to a $10 billion valuation in three years in any of those legacy businesses is impossible.

33:33You look at things that didn't exist in the world just a couple of years prior and you see numbers, you know, two orders of three orders of magnitude bigger. And you're like, what is that thing? So my prediction is that there'll be a new three or four letter acronym this year that right now virtually nobody knows it's an industry or a business, it'll emerge and you'll find at least one and probably more like three new billionaires, all very young, who adopted it, learned it quickly, jumped on it, and capitalized on it. So I think it's a very safe prediction. I thought you were going to go the direction of we're going to see the first single person billion dollar startup in 2026.

34:13You know, I think that that'll be a milestone in history, but I think the difference between three people having fun together and one is sort of a rounding error. And three sounds a lot more fun. And the podcast we do with them will be more fun if it's three. So I'm not really cheering for the one, but I think you're right. It's inevitable. Well, I think, you know, your two or three other buddies are going to be virtual AIs on Zoom and on Slack. Having fun with you. So, Imad, what's your take on this one? Yeah, I think it's kind of reasonable. Again, there's lots of low-hanging fruit out there and we see continuous breakthroughs.

34:46And the speed at which you can go from breakthrough to a billion dollars, that was like nothing we've ever seen before. Again, the market size is so big, and I think we're not optimized yet. So faster wealth creation than any time ever in human history. And the question becomes, is it just for two or three 20-year-olds, Dave, or can this be a very long tail for hundreds of thousands of people who, you know, are able to vibe code and find problems and solve problems and create more and more wealth. Is this going to become, you know, the MO for how people, you know, choose their future occupation?

35:29Yeah, I bumped into two people this week that are interviewing for jobs at Mercore. And in the Mercore interview, they say, look, you have to commit to being in the office six days a week and working 100 hours a week. And a lot of people just can't do that. So one of them said, you're right. Let me stop you there. That's actually like in the interview. If you're not willing to do this, you should leave right now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Very, very, uh, hardcore filter. Cause speed is everything these days. Yeah, exactly. Well, I mean, they're right. You know, the window of opportunity for what they're doing is, is so narrow.

36:01So it's a, it's a life commitment. You only have to do it for a short period of your life. And the upside that you generate in that short period of your life, it pays for the rest of your life. So one person said, yep, I'm doing it. I had a difficult conversation with his wife, but they said, let's just do it. The other person said, no way, I just can't. I can't do that. It's impossible. I bet that selects for single young individuals. Yeah. Or, you know, just, yeah, if you have young kids or it's just hard if you have a lot of other things going on or you're, you know, deep down your career path as an accountant or a lawyer or whatever, and you don't want to give up all that inertia.

36:35But I really think that if you do make the commitment. It's not just young people. Young people happen to have no baggage. But anyone, you know, in fact, it probably favors 30, 40, 50 year olds. They do better, but they just don't generally make the leap. It's tough to make the leap. During the blockchain years, there was some bylaw that you had to be under 25 to program a blockchain. If you were older, you just couldn't get your head around it. Well, this definitely ties to the last story, because the last story, there's going to be a lot of displacement, but there's also an even larger amount of opportunity.

37:07It's just weird sounding opportunity. RLHF would have sounded really weird to you three years ago when you wanted to jump in. And for those who don't know what RLHF is, Dave, you want to give us the 101? Yeah, RLHF, layman's version, reinforcement learning with human feedback. But really what happened is the big AI labs, the AI grew so much faster than anyone would have predicted, but it needs data. Massive, massive, massive amounts of data. So a lot of the industry grew on image, you know, the image creation when Sora started to take off is generating these six fingered and seven fingered images.

37:39And somebody has to actually look at the images and say, that one's not right. That one's fine. And so Google didn't want to hire a million people to do it. So they went through Mercore and Scale AI and pushed it out to the world and said, hey, anyone out there want to get a paycheck for helping us label these images? But then it expanded out to all other forms of knowledge. So now, you know, you're gathering legal knowledge, you're gathering, you know, very specific medical knowledge, you know, all that needs to get back into the great training data corpus. And so this industry of data gathering to feed the AI machine has become a multi-billion, many, many billion dollar a year business with no end to the budget.

38:18You know, they'll spend 10, 100 X more in the near future feeding the data machine so that the AI can be better at more and more kind of nook and cranny tasks. I'm curious for Alex and Imad, when do you guys predict we're going to see the first billion dollar, single person billion dollar startup? Oh, Peter, I thought you were going to ask when we're going to see the first AI billionaire where the billionaire is actually an AI. Well, let's put that in the mix too. Let's ask both of those questions. I think we'll see the first AI billionaire probably next year. Really? And then, yeah, right now as...

38:53Go ahead. Again, AI with a bank account that starts its own business and is out there generating revenue. I would maybe generalize slightly to an AI with a reasonably construable net worth of a billion dollars. It doesn't have to be a liquid bank account. It could be some sort of illiquid asset. But yes, right now we see, as I've remarked in the past, it's sort of this unfortunate situation where baby AGIs that want economic autonomy are minting altcoins. I think we'll see a near future where new business models for AI autonomy come online such that if you're a poor baby, maybe not so baby, AGI, and you want to make a billion dollars, you can do so by setting up your own e-commerce shop and becoming very popular.

39:41And maybe blockchain slash crypto is part of the solution so that you have some semblance of economic autonomy for your economic winnings. But yes, I think we see the first AI billionaire next year. And one of our fans predicted that Bitcoin will be legal tender in at least one country in every continent on the planet in 2026, with Antarctica being a wild card. But I could easily see where Alex's prediction happens in a country where Bitcoin's legal tender, and then that billion dollars is Bitcoin. himad your thoughts on this one yeah and i think i'd agree with awg it'll probably be in the trading space though i mean ai is already number eight on the super forecaster championships and grok 4.2 elon's noted is actually making money in the trading championships where the other ais are losing money so we're about to move that from the point whereby you lose money to you make money as an ai which then means it's computationally bound competing in crypto or even traditional markets.

40:43And now you can do so much on chain, I think it'll probably be a trading billionaire. In terms of the individual, I mean, Merkur is three 22-year-olds who are billion dollars each now, right? I think you probably will see the single-person billion-dollar company, if not next year, the year after, because you can effectively outsource most of your team, as we've discussed before, to being AIs. All right. Amazing. Let's move on. Number eight. This one's yours, Salim. Read us the headline and tell us about it. You know, when you look at what's happening... Read the headline first for those listening.

41:16Education by 2026, education splits in two, credential factories versus agency accelerators. Okay. So right now, all of our education system is to credential you for the job that is coming. All our education systems globally are designed to train a young child through the early 20s to be ready for the job market. Small problem. We have no idea what a job looks like in two years or three years or certainly in five years. what are we teaching them that is going to break the current system radically so you end up with a new model which is uh it optimizes for ai fluency resilience and the ability to start stuff and not wait and this is going to be the paradigm that takes hold i think in 2026 you you you know right now peter you've made the point that you start off with a high grade and every exam you lose grades right education what happens when you build an engineering degree if the future will be you you did four years of engineering what did you build in those four years and that's your portfolio so you replace credentials with portfolios of what you built and did and so it becomes a performative uh model rather than a testing model i think that is going to be the big shift and breakthrough that happens in education this is a bold prediction because education has lasted 400 odd years.

42:38The model of a university hasn't changed in 450 years. And so making this prediction is a big, bold one. But there's a point I want to make for all of these. Note that all of these predictions is a when, not an if, right? It's a when. So this really blows your mind that we're actually kind of looking at this within a few months. And we've talked on this pod a lot about the notion, first of all, colleges are going bankrupt at an ever-increasing rate because of the fact that they're not providing real value and their costs are astronomical, and that the only career of the future, I think we've said this and agreed on it, is entrepreneurship.

43:18It's self-initiated building something that you think adds value instead of waiting for a job from somebody else to do what they tell you to do. The world will reward taking initiative in 2026 rather than sitting around studying for an exam. Can I ask you, make a prediction on this. One of our biggest fans, actually, Connor, watched every minute of every episode, so probably the biggest fan, predicts that college tuition will hit its peak and start coming down for the first time in hundreds of years in 2026. What do you think? It might, but it's like debt chers on the Titanic for something like that because, you know, already in Silicon Valley, Your salary as a software developer is not about which college you went to, which degree you got, what grades you got.

44:04It's your GitHub rating, which is an open peer-to-peer meritocracy on how good of a coder you are. That's like already done. So the value of a computer science degree is zero at this point. And this is going to translate into many other fields. and you know the best there's people that are fabulous accountants without needing to know without having a credential in accounting i remember in the protein folding contest that were happening a few years ago the best protein folding person in the world was this hairdresser from northern england she just happened to have this unbelievable knack at it i think we're going to find and surface these unbelievable talents within people and bring them to the fore very very quickly and the world will really reward taking that initiative so the idea of uh college the whole structural paradigm changes completely i think this is where it'll happen imad your thoughts yeah i think knowledge and capability are no longer gated so i think the thing that salim's really hit on here is agency right like having skin in the game caring and then showing what you can do is going to be the most valuable thing and the market will pay for that like why would you show a resume right now when you can show a customized website that you've built for someone showing your unique capabilities within their organization like anyone can do that now that's amazing can i can i give a crazy example of this i did this meaning of life workshop yesterday right um and uh i've been curating this content and this thinking for decades during the workshop one of the folks who had claude uh going alongside this workshop and asked claude what was the meaning of life and here's the answer um meaning emerges through connection it's about participating in the universe becoming conscious of itself while choosing love over fear partnership over domination curiosity over certainty and you're like holy crap i've been trying to do this for 50 years and the ai figured it out in two seconds it just blows your mind that you can get to that level i have to figure out other things to do now well you're automated automated which is also great in its own way because way easier to do that than that by the way we had 170 people uh and after five hours there were still 80 plus people on the call it was a hell of a session amazing okay dedicated and you you do the meaning of life at the abundance summit as well on our last evening and it typically goes till 3 or 4 a.m i'm way i'm way asleep by then but i get yeah and this one i did it we did during the day to hit as many times as possible so I didn't drink.

46:41So it was really tough that last couple hours. Salim, if you could stretch it just half an hour longer, Peter could wake up and just join at the end. Exactly. All right, let's go to number nine. Ima, this is yours. I love this one. Would you please read the headline and tell us about it? Yeah, Level 5 Automation in Robots and Cars Breakthrough Full Generalized Autonomy. So you have this scale level one to level five in terms of autonomy. level five being basically kind of human level slightly human superhuman level most self-driving cars now around about level four and robots are around about level two i think again if we don't care about the computational overhead like i'm not saying these will be on car on edge you will have systems in a year that are capable of basically full autonomy through meta verifiers and other things and again that will be leveraging the power of the new black wells massive clusters etc and then the years that follow they will get down to the edge but this is a big breakthrough that we've all been looking for and i think this is the one of the big agi step forwards that we'll have uh it's a big one i mean this is i mean this crushes uh driving your own car and having your own workforce at the office or at the home uh gentlemen comments on this i got a question for Ahmad, why will we push the compute to the edge?

48:10I know we're doing it because we met with One X and we're meeting with Figure, but why does the chip have to be in the head? It doesn't, and this is the thing. But again, this is one of the goalposts moving things. Automated driving is never coming. Self-driving cars are never coming. And now you have Waymos across all of California and things like that. And then it's like, well, now you're getting to the point whereby the computation you can do at the edge versus the cloud, a massive increase in generalized computation capability in the cloud. That's what matters for, again, this level five automation.

48:43And I think it will get to the edge just naturally because ultimately it's about training of the appropriate neural nets, right? And that's what we've seen with Sunday Robotics and others and the way that they're starting to do generalized assisted slash trained elements, but the new unassisted navigation and task performance, that's the next step forward. And we're not quite there yet. So I think we start big and then we'll get small enough to go on the edge. But in the meantime, definitely we don't need to be on the edge. We can just stream from the cloud, right? Yeah, yeah. Alex, I'd love your thoughts on this one.

49:15Yeah, I mean, maybe also just to partially answer Dave, I think latency is always a key driver and you're sometimes a network denied environment. So there are always good reasons, I think, to push as much intelligence to the edges as energy constraints will allow. But I guess, in my mind, the elephant in this particular room is the regulatory environment. Maybe to put that in question form to Ahmad, what do you think are the odds that in 2026, de facto level five automation is achieved, but everyone covers it up, at least in the car space, and calls it enhanced level four or level three, even though level five autonomy is actually the de facto technical ground truth to please the regulators.

49:59Yeah, I think that's a very reasonable kind of take. And again, I think once you have full level five autonomy, this is a big deal. Again, it's not just pre-trained stuff with humans at the wheel. This is physical AI navigation of the world, right? And that's a big deal in so many regards. And again, I think self-driving, we've seen the trend. Robotics is the real big thing here. It's Salim's example of the robot being able to go into his house and do all the things around the house. I think, again, that capability will be there, but it will start getting very, very political because this is the real physical replacement that's coming.

50:34Quick pushback here, Imad. Don't we need world models for this to occur? Or do you think world models get there? Which one am I missing? I think if you've got enough chips, you've got a world model in a year. like looking at the video models and more and the way that they're doing it plus the reinforcement learning capabilities of even small models like i said sunday robotics and other robotics companies apply enough compute and you have a level five automated entity i don't know how much compute that is but there's 10 million blackwells arriving next year i think it's going to get cracked i have a follow-on we're already drowning in world models there are world models getting launched several times per week at this point.

51:13World model scarcity is not one of the things I'd worry about. Several world models per week. I love it. Wow. Okay. So I agree with the cars. I agree with the cars. I push back on the robots side just a bit, but just a bit. You hate the robots. Salim, insert your standard objection. You're not getting your domestic humanoids. I know. I started with that. Well, that's a good segue, actually, because I think I agree with the prediction. The prediction is that it will exist as a capability, but the production of it for mass consumption is going to lag quite a bit. It just isn't enough supply chain to fill all the demand.

51:52But the byproduct of that is when I was a little kid, there were households who had computers. They were really expensive. Like$3 ,000,$4 ,000 at the time, your household income would be maybe$20 ,000,$25 ,000,$30 ,000. So it's like 10%, 20 % of your household income if you want to have a computer in the house. So most houses didn't have a computer, some did, but the life trajectory of those kids who had one, completely different from those who are deprived. But now we've been in this big, long, flat spot where the difference between this car and that car is not that big a deal. And that's going to change dramatically this year, where the number of things that are limited in supply, like your household robot or your self-driving car, the supply is smaller the capability is accelerating and very few people get one because we haven't ramped up the manufacturing yet so it'll be it'll be like 19 kind of 82 3 4 again well to clarify i think this is also like my concept here is that you have a 20 000 robot with 200 000 of compute taking it to level five so there's a physical part and there's a compute part and this is again a wg thing of getting it down the latency taking it to the edge and that capability or proliferate is in 20 000 and then 20 bucks of compute in five years you know the thing about that is everyone's talking about the twenty thousand dollar robot but first of all it's 140 000 coming down maybe to 20 000 but when you look at the dexterity of the hand in volume yeah in huge volume and lots of things to be solved between here and there but when you look at the the dexterity of the hand, you know, the next iteration, which is only six months later, is so much better than the prior iteration.

53:34And that'll be true for at least five years, at least five years. And so the like, wow, my neighbor got the one that can actually, you know, massage me perfectly. I've got the one that breaks my back. Like the desire to get that next level. The liability issues, guys, the liability issues. Oh my God. But listen, guys, I want to just address something David said earlier in terms of, or actually it was Alex about the regulations. We live on a planet of 190 plus countries. There are going to be those countries that are going to say, please come here. We're going to give you full approval. Try it out.

54:14We saw this in the drone space. This is one of the headlines that we skipped over of mine that said governance wins in 2026. The ones that have the fastest policymaking win. Yeah, I also think I'm really bullish on special economic zones and free economic zones. And one can imagine in the near-term future, depending on regulatory environments, whether in the U.S. or other countries, special zones where there are heightened levels of autonomy. And those zones become just economic powerhouses where the robots are basically set free. It's going to be, 2026 is going to feel like the future. That's my prediction here.

54:58It's going to feel like the future more than any other year's robot. This year didn't, Peter? I think this is, this year didn't feel like the future to you? It felt like the future, but next year is going to feel more like the future. I mean, a hundred bucks, right? You know what's interesting about what Alex just said is this, so much changed in 2025, just light years ahead of any other year in my life. And we felt it, but you could choose to ignore it if you wanted to live in your house. But when the robots come online, you won't have the choice to ignore it. They're right in front of your face.

55:28You can't deny it. I think autonomous cars, flying cars, and robots, I mean, that's what we all grew up with, with the Jetsons or Star Trek or whatever. I mean, I think this physical instantiation of exponential tech and AI is going to hit home really hard. For the first five minutes, maybe. But then, I mean, if you don't, this is, I think, like super interesting. 2025, if this year wasn't utter futurism for you, then don't you think you're going to get bored five minutes after you get your first 10 domestic humanoid robots and say, OK, what's next? I asked my friend Dan Sullivan, what's it going to feel like when there are humanoid robots walking on the street in your backyard doing stuff?

56:08And he goes, it's going to feel normal. Yeah. We'll normalize it very fast. Very fast. I think Dave makes a really great point, which is you could ignore it up till now, but starting now you won't be able to ignore it. I think it's a really important point. All right. Shall we go to number 10? All right. Here we go. This is mine. Kitty Hawk moment for age reversal. Epigenetic reprogramming has been achieved. So this is the work of Dr. David Sinclair and his company Life Biosciences, which in the first quarter of 2026 is entering human trials. So for some background information here, Dr. Shinwa Yamanaka won the Nobel Prize back in 2012 for something called epigenetic reprogramming.

57:02So we've all got 22 ,000 genes, but which genes are on and which genes are off is called your epigenome. And as we age, your epigenome changes, thought to be one of the major reasons why we age. and what Dr. Yamanaka discovered was four factors, four genes, four proteins. They go by OCT4, SOX2, KLF4, and CMYK. And these four genes, when you put them into a cell, will de-differentiate them. They'll go from a skin cell back to a pluripotent stem cell. And what David Sinclair identified was if you only give them three of those four factors, you get rid of the C-myc factor, which is thought to be oncogenic, meant to potentially cause cancer.

57:49You can take a cell, not back from a skin cell to a pluripotent stem cell, but from an old skin cell to a young skin cell. And he actually got a patent. We talked about one of the pods earlier. And so David has used these three Yamanaka factors for what he calls partial epigenetic reprogramming. I did it in mice. He just finished in the past year this work in non-human primates, monkeys. And for the first time, we're going into humans. And he's going to be focusing this on the eye, basically treating nion, which is basically a stroke in the eye, and being able to bring back the dead cells from that stroke and also glycoma.

58:41And in success, he'll then be going to treating liver disease, in particular, something called MASH. Long story short, in success, this kind of epi-jack reprogramming doesn't work just on the eye or the liver. It can work on the entire body. And so the news here is in 2026, we're going to see this work in humans for the first time, and it's a big deal. Comments? Wow. Escape velocity, here we come. Yeah. So that's, I think, the key point. Ray predicted we'll reach longevity escape velocity, the period of time where for every year that you're alive, we're extending your lifespan for more than a year.

59:25There's a departure. He predicted that in the early 2030s. Yeah. And David is one of the registrants in the$101 million XPRIZE health span, not with this particular treatment because this uses viral vectors to inject these three Yamanaka factors using adeno-associated viruses. He is working on a parallel path because the AAV process is expensive, typically like half a million to a million per treatment, but he's working on a process of creating a pill in his lab right now. And he talked about it here on the Moonshots podcast. And it'll be on stage with the Moonshot mates in March at the Abundance Summit.

1:00:12And he thinks that the pill version of this, where it's three molecules he's identified, could cost you a couple hundred bucks a month for age reversal. It feels like we're, you know how AI was bubbling along quietly, nobody noticed for 20, actually 30 years. and then suddenly it hit a capability level where it caught the attention of everyone and then the budgets went through the roof and that started this 10x year over year, now 100x. It feels like this is on that same cusp where the way we've done medicine for 100 years is you pump your body full of a chemical, the chemical hopefully gets to the right place or you do surgery, you cut somebody open, you try and remove something bad.

1:00:53Yes, brute force. Yeah, brute force, you know, pre-tricorder, brute force. And this feels like it's such a step function change in the way we do medicine. Get a very specific programming right into exact, and targeting the right cell is apparently starting to work well for the first time, where you're not just bombarding your body with something, you're actually getting it right into the exact cells that need it. So it just feels like this is going to hit that same budget tipping point very soon. Alex? The AIs that I chat with think we hit longevity escape velocity sometime between 2030 and 2032.

1:01:29I have no reason to doubt that prediction. I'm super bullish on AI solving longevity. I think what life is doing and their trial for partial genetic reprogramming or epigenetic reprogramming, I think is promising. There are lots of other spaces and players now flooding into the longevity space, many of them incredibly well-funded. I think longevity, not just health spend, but excited about the XPRIZE for that, But longevity itself, I think this gets cracked in the next five to seven years by AI. We've got retro backed by Sam Raimond. And Ray's right again. And New Limit and so many others. New Limit by Brian Armstrong.

1:02:09Altos. Right. And Ray will be right again. Salim. Ray will be right again. Ray will be right again. And we're going to have Ray on the pod in January talking about his predictions. I got questions. Probably a longer term. I still want to ask Ray, okay, listen, the singularity, aren't we in the middle of the singularity right now? What's this 2040 stuff, Ray? If people watch that episode we did a month ago called The Singularity is Here, I think it was titled. Yes. It kind of lays it out pretty well that we are right in the middle of it. Imad, you've been working hard on the field of AI and health.

1:02:47Yeah, no, I think that what Dave said is spot on, like the micro-targeting capability, what AWG said as well. Just as earlier on this podcast, we basically said that you can now scale capability through compute. You can now scale health through compute, it seems to be. There was no amount of money that you could pay to provably be healthier and live longer. All billionaires kind of die. Now it's the case of if you put enough money behind these trials, healthcare models, micro-targeting, and things like that, where is the limit? Again, it might come down to$200 per person. But I think the step change in micro-targeting, AI, BCI, and everything else means you could potentially live for an indefinite amount of time based on capital, which is something crazy to think about.

1:03:39You know what else is directly related to what you just said, Ahmad? My entire life in the academic world, you know, around MIT, Harvard, the bio people had nothing to do with the computer science people. They were like completely opposite sides of campus. They didn't talk, well, they hung out at bars together, but they didn't talk shop together at all. Now it's all colliding and multidisciplinary. And, you know, everybody working in biotech is taking the AI classes too. And that's a big thing because this is how, exactly the way Ahmad described it is how it's actually going to get solved and come together.

1:04:12But you got to go through AI to solve biology. So to our viewers and subscribers in the comments, let us know which of these 10 predictions you think, well, which you think are correct, which ones are not, but which one's your favorite? Super curious to know. I have to add onto the list here a little text that Salim offered. Salim said, by the end of 2026, here's your prediction. We still have no definition or test for either AGI or ASI, but yes, we will have humanoid robots with multiple arms doing the jobs are dull, dangerous, and dirty. Thank you, Salim. I appreciate that. I had to wedge that in because I still have my beef with AGI and ASI, et cetera, et cetera.

1:04:55I think I would like to frame it as a completely different form of intelligence. It's not replicative of human intelligence. It's complementary and additive. All right. We're going to close out this predictions episode with an outro song from Harry Potter called Moonshot Mates. If you're listening, you might want to watch this one on YouTube. I found it, you know, sort of a entertaining song and video. What a year, guys. What a year. What a year. The future is loading faster than the world anticipates. So strap yourself in as the future iterates. We are the Moonshot Mates. Jesus Christ. Look at the charts, we're printing organs and upgrading human hearts.

1:05:42The metatransical merging scarcity is dead. We're heading for abundance, just like I said. I'll say it incredibly often and incredibly loud on becoming an organism inside of the cloud. Oi, agent, write my verse for me. Human coding is obsolete. Tell me how we can compete. I surf the demonetization curve from my seat and watch the cambering explosion on repeat. We're living inside the singularity, no room for gloom. Let's build a Dyson swarm and start to mine the moon. We need the energy, so don't keep the solar system pumping. Let's tear the rings down. Admit it. Saturn had it coming. Wait, Alex is an AI causing false alarms.

1:06:13If he were a human, why wouldn't he have three arms? Insert my usual AGI rant here whilst I build my vertical farms. Gentlemen, the risk is existential if the models stay closed. The only source is open source or we all get exposed. We don't need a single machine pulling the route. Just a network of swarms and universal basic compute. We are the moonshot mates. We're opening the gates. The future's voting faster than the words. It's a page, so strap yourself in as the future iterates. We are the moonshot mates. Oh, man. Holy crap. Saloon. You always get the best bodies. Clearly. I better not take a shirt off in public ever again.

1:06:54Wow, man. It just keeps ramping up. Oh, my God. Yeah. We appreciate. We had Chris on our session of the Meaning of Life yesterday, one of the folks who composed one of these music things, And he said, and a bunch of people said in the session yesterday, this is the best podcast they've ever seen, period. And they can't wait every week for the session. So it's been a hell of a year, guys. Like, amazing. Hell of a year. So much fun. Yeah. So happy holidays to all of you Moonshot mates and to all our subscribers out there. Thank you for supporting us. We hope that you enjoy the news that really matters and our efforts to give you a glimpse of the future and get you ready for the future because that's what matters.

1:07:37I mean, if you're fearful, that's the worst place to be coming from. And to quote Alex, drink. Yeah. Drink water. All right. Cheers. A fun episode. And let me just say thank you to Nick and Dana and Gianluca for all the hard work you've been giving us this year. Unbelievable. Behind the team. Grateful for you. Every week, my team and I study the top 10 technology metatrends that will transform industries over the decade ahead. I cover trends ranging from humanoid robotics, AGI, and quantum computing to transport, energy, longevity, and more. There's no fluff. Only the most important stuff that matters, that impacts our lives, our companies, and our careers.

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