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The speaker describes a hypothetical cycle in which self-driving trucks, robot-built factories, humanoid-robot production, and chip-fab production could expand at accelerating rates, potentially doubling every year, six months, or three months as technology improves.
Daniel Kokotajlo · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“drip mines self-driving trucks factories being built by humanoid robots producing more humanoid robots producing more chip fabs and so forth like that whole thing can just be like doubling every year every six months every three months faster and faster as the technology improves because of course the ais will also be researching to improve the technology who knows what's going on in the rest of the world but anthropic has um”Play from 0:27Report a misattribution
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