![]() My friend was taken aback by this comment. My friend, naturally, was curious what would happen to us humans in that future. ![]() They will live among us, walking our dogs, driving our cars, serving and protecting our families, and operating our infrastructure, he predicted. The CEO launched into a long explanation of how our future planet will someday, perhaps very soon, be inhabited by millions, if not billions, of robots. Their conversation veered onto the topic of robots and artificial intelligence, a field this tech titan had invested in. ![]() At them, invitees (often CEOs, V.C.s, and sometimes tech journalists) might share like-minded ideas or debate some esoteric new technology.Īt this particular meal, by chance, my friend wound up sitting next to a multibillionaire tech CEO. My friend had been invited to a high-end dinner in Palo Alto, with a couple dozen or so tech founders, CEOs, and investors. It’s not quite as cabal-like as it sounds: These kinds of elbow-rubbing dinners, often held in the back room of a fancy restaurant, are a regular occurrence in the tech world. A couple of years ago, right before the pandemic began, a friend told me an unsettling story of an interaction he had with a tech titan in Silicon Valley.
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