Opinion: AI and Robotics Will Make Labor Abundant, Compute and Energy Are the Next Oil
VraserX · x · 2026-08-06
The author argues that as AI technology matures, expertise will become abundant and highly accessible. Meanwhile, the widespread adoption of robotics will significantly expand labor capacity. In this progression, energy and raw materials will emerge as the ultimate bottlenecks for development.
Consequently, compute and energy will become the core resources driving the era of intelligence, playing a role as crucial as "oil" did in the industrial age.
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