prediction claim
The speaker expects that, even if compute scaling slows, within a few more years each company could have more AI labor equivalents than the human population of Earth.
Dwarkesh Patel · Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028 · 25 Aug 2026
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“And then pretty soon, even if compute scaling slows down,”
“it doesn't take many more years before each company individually has more labor equivalents than there are people on earth.”Play from 1:08:50Report a misattribution
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