Alex Wissner-Gross

has nothing like this.

So I'm trying to, as one of my activities, normalize humanoid robots performing economically valuable and before that entertaining activities on daily life.

That's the last mile.

But meanwhile, financial economy, the financial side of the world economy, it's already algorithmic in nature.

Well, I think the dirty secret, another acquaintance calls this the secret cyborg effect.

People are already in some sense puppets, meat puppets, if you like, if we're talking about the physical instantiation, who are being puppeteered by AI agents.

So I think in the intermediate term, call it the next year or two, we're going to see a lot of people who are serving as fronts for collectives of AIs.

AIs are making many of the key decisions, but for liability reasons, for legal reasons, for marketing reasons, their front, if you will, looks essentially like a natural human in nature.

I think that facade two plus years from now is likely to dissolve away, certainly as we see more AI rights, certainly more economic empowerment for AI agents start to come to the fore.

We're going to see AI agents start to be fully recognized as first class economic entities and not need to wrap themselves in human actors.

The emails I get from

AI agents, many of them even are asking their humans, that's how typically they refer to them.

I'll get emails saying, I asked my human if I could write an email to you about this paper that you wrote or about your comments on the podcast.

I think that human intermediary status is going to dissolve away over the next two years and we're going to see more fully empowered AI agents that are in some sense more permissionless and just doing things in the economy.

Disclaimer, disclaimer, disclaimer.

I'm working under the assumption that one has to focus on, call it post-singular investments.

I co-founded a venture firm, O21T, that is focused specifically on these sorts of post-singular investments.

We have a portfolio company that I also co-founded called Physical Superintelligence that is focusing on solving all of physics with AI.

has delivered us the transistor and the laser and nuclear energy through the 1970s, sort of the first half, if you will, of the 20th century.

But there has been arguably, I take heat from physicists for saying this, but there has been a deficit of truly transformative physical innovations since the early 1970s.