The 2026 Timeline: AGI Arrival, Safety Concerns, Robotaxi Fleets & Hyperscaler Timelines | 221

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

PHD Ventures

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4.8 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Get access to metatrends 10+ years before anyone else - https://qr.diamandis.com/metatrends Salim Ismail is the founder of OpenExO Dave Blundin is the founder & GP of Link Ventures Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross is a computer scientist and founder of Reified – My companies: Apply to Dave's and my new fund:https://qr.diamandis.com/linkventureslanding Go to Blitzy to book a free demo and start building today: https://qr.diamandis.com/blitzy _ Grab dinner with MOONSHOT listeners: https://moonshots.dnnr.io/ Connect with Peter: X Instagram Connect with Dave: X LinkedIn Connect with Salim: X Join Salim's Workshop to build your ExO Connect with Alex Website LinkedIn X Email Listen to MOONSHOTS: Apple YouTube – *Recorded on January 7th, 2026 *The views expressed by me and all guests are personal opinions and do not constitute Financial, Medical, or Legal advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What the heck is AGI anyway and how we know when it's arrived or if it's arrived already?
0:07.0	AGI, that's artificial general intelligence.
0:10.0	Everyone is talking about AGI.
0:12.0	AGI.
0:13.0	AGI.
0:14.0	AGI is the biggest technical thing ever in my lifetime.
0:18.0	I think AGI is a completely complementary form of intelligence to human intelligence.
0:23.6	Is AGI here? Is it not here? What even is it? Benchmarks are our friend here,
0:28.7	enabling us to be rigorous about what we're even talking about.
0:32.1	Models are improving quickly and are now capable of many great things, but they also starting to present some real
0:39.5	challenges.
0:40.5	They are incredibly convincing and capable of manipulating people already.
0:45.6	And this is an existential threat for society.
0:47.7	When we talk about AI alignment and safety and preparedness, the only metric, the only approach that seems to bear promise is...
0:59.0	Now that's the moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.
1:04.8	Oh, my God. So, 26, it's incredible that we're here.
1:10.3	Yeah. Yeah. I mean, how do you guys... It feels like we're in March, by the way. Yeah, it does incredible that we're here. Yeah.
1:11.6	I mean, how do you guys...
1:12.6	It feels like we're in March, by the way.
1:13.6	Yeah, it does, right?
1:14.6	In the first two weeks feel like in a total acceleration.
1:16.6	Oh my God.
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