Diamandis releases new WTF episode on AI alignment and falling machine costs
PeterDiamandis · x · 2026-10-19
Peter Diamandis promotes his latest WTF episode, covering the same arguments from his prior thread: AI alignment fails because of fear/greed/race incentives, robot inference costs halving every three weeks, XPRIZE's 62x return, and the unanswered question of where cheaper-smarter-faster machines are heading.
Related event: Robot Task Costs Plunge 84%, Diamandis Warns on AI Alignment(3 posts)→
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