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The speaker is not agnostic about the future, but gives broad timelines for widely deployed robotics and for compute sufficient to run AI-controlled knowledge-worker populations larger than today's human population.

Dwarkesh Patel · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026

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“I am totally not agnostic, but I have very broad timelines around when we have, say,”
“widely deployed robotics,”
“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”
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