4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
prediction claim

The speakers predict that after human-substituting AI for knowledge work arrives, robots—perhaps controlled by those AIs—will be able to perform physical work broadly substituting for humans.

Daniel Kokotajlo · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sep 2026

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“And then sometime after that,”
“we will have robots perhaps controlled by those AIs that can do physical work in a way that broadly substitutes for humans.”
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