Turing Award winner David Patterson: AI and robots will make everything free
davidpattersonx · x · 2026-09-22
David Patterson, Turing Award winner and computer architecture legend, posted: nothing is free today because everything requires human work, but soon AI and robots will produce everything — free and unlimited. 'Then we will finally be free. And we will all be rich.' A strikingly utopian long-term take on AI's economic impact from a senior academic.
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