Rory Stewart

On Earth, we could scale energy consumption a thousandfold.

Up to then, beyond that, you can go, yeah, two billion fold more.

So it's a really big gain.

And at the moment, this is all covered by the Outer Space Treaty.

So it can't be owned by any nation.

I expect the Outer Space Treaty to get thrown in the bin, essentially, when it becomes of real economic value.

So what the United States could say is like, look, we're not even going to take anyone's territory, but we're going, we're the first ones to space.

SpaceX will...

essentially have a near monopoly on private launches already, we're going to take these resources, thanks.

And then at that point, all other countries are just locked out of most economic power.

Okay, Rory, we'll quit breaking them back for more.

Well, the other is just they will always obey orders.

That's the risk, at least.

Or they become autonomous.

Yes.

So this is going to be a huge challenge.

It's one of the things I'm working on at the moment is AI has already been heavily used in the military.

It was involved in the taking of Maduro.

It was involved in Iran.

Again, we're not looking that far out.