The speaker predicts that compute sufficient for AI-controlled knowledge-worker populations larger than the current human population will eventually exist, while acknowledging estimates ranging from the later 2030s to the 2040s.

“enough compute in the world such that you could run populations of knowledge workers greater than the current population of the whole world but you might think this happens later in the 2030s you might think it happens in the 2040s it is going to happen and these systems will be controlled then by AIs right the robots the sort of remote workers the scientists the engineers the researchers and I think that is”