Alexander Wissner-Gross

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Palmer Luckey: Autonomous Weapons Are Ancient and Why Anduril…

• Why Won't Anduril Build Humanoids?

  Palmer Luckey says Anduril will not build humanoids because he believes they have a powerful future. If he did not believe that, he says he would probably build them. He wants Anduril to build things that would not otherwise exist, and he agrees with Peter Diamandis that the aim is to maximize marginal impact.

  Alexander Wissner-Gross asks whether Anduril's robots will converge on one general-purpose machine, the way general models handle many tasks. Palmer Luckey says no on the defense side. Manufacturing, hospitality, and medicine might share one form, because each of them gets real economies of scale. Defense does not. He builds robot submarines that dive to 6,000 meters and sit on the oc

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