James Thomson

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2,279 appearances 7 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 12 Jun

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The Money Café with Alan Kohler · Mining for More · 27 May 2026 podcast

I mean, think of the...

Think of the jet fuel you save.

Think of the time you save for people.

Think of the safety benefits.

Think of the logistics that you don't need.

I mean, I don't know how far away that is.

There, well, there are some tasks like trade-based tasks, you know, diesel mechanics, fitters, people supervising equipment and all that sort of stuff, checking for safety issues and inspecting stuff.

So you would imagine that over time.

you could use some form of humanoid robot to do some of that work.

So, yeah, I think that's completely possible.

And you just think of the, yeah, the FIFO system places a lot of strain on a lot of different things, so...

It would seem to me to be a pretty obvious solution, but the mining companies aren't talking about that.

I mean, the other thing with AI, Alan, overnight, I've been noticing this, that there's a few companies starting to talk about the cost of AI and how expensive it's becoming.

Now, there's a few companies that are really binging on AI and using it in lots of different ways.

But overnight, the chief operating officer of Uber was out talking about how he's starting to get worried about how much they're spending on tokens and are they seeing the resultant productivity improvement.

And this is noticeable that tech, you know, AI is supposed to cut tech costs, but we had the ASX come out yesterday, the market operator, and say that their cost growth next year and the year after is going to be much higher because of tech inflation.

We've had CBA point to tech inflation in 2020.

cloud computing and other things.

In the US, we've had a lot of companies saying, geez, there's a lot of the token cost and then what we're spending on cloud is really going up.

So, I mean, maybe this is a temporary sort of bump in the road and eventually these costs do come down, but it's an interesting sort of moment.

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