AI-run asteroid mining corporations may appear by 2033.
Jack Clark, Anthropic
This means that space mining is a perfect business opportunity for superintelligences that come online - perhaps by 2033 we will see AI-run asteroid mining corporations, bidding on contracts that human-supervised companies are not willing to pursue, due to risk or complexity.
- Who
- Jack Clark, Co-founder, Anthropic; author of Import AI
- Made
- Aug 31, 2026 2 months ago
- Target
- Dec 31, 2033 in 7 years (stated as "by 2033")
- Status
- Openin 7 years
- Source
- Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries Primary: their own words · original recording
- Topics
- AGI
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