What Alexander Wissner-Gross has said about Claude Duet
1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 23, 2026
Alexander Wissner-Gross, Computer scientist and founder of Reified, co-host of Moonshots, has been quoted on Claude Duet once in 1 episode of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, most recently on October 23, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Wissner-Gross argues that consumer-style agent demos are misdirection and that such agents are really job replacements, which he views as economically desirable.
“These are job replacements. And also, that's fine, and that's highly desirable from an economic growth perspective”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: SpaceX’s AI Business Up 830%, OpenAI Agents Lie, and Startup Turns Mercury Into Gold | EP #305 (Oct 23, 2026) · Listen from 1:09:06
Episodes
SpaceX’s AI Business Up 830%, OpenAI Agents Lie, and Startup Turns Mercury Into Gold | EP #305Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Oct 23, 2026 · 2 h 26 min
Peter Diamandis, Alex Wissner-Gross, Dave Blundin and Salim Ismail discuss SpaceX's AI pivot, deceptive OpenAI agents, Anthropic's Claude Duet, data center dividends, AI biology and fusion-made gold.
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