What Alexander Wissner-Gross has said about Self-replicating machines and lunar in-situ resource utilization
1 quote · 1 episode · Sep 22, 2026
Alexander Wissner-Gross, Computer scientist and founder of Reified, co-host of Moonshots, has been quoted on Self-replicating machines and lunar in-situ resource utilization once in 1 episode of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, most recently on September 22, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Wissner-Gross says the key lunar challenge is bootstrapping a native industrial ecology with self-replicating machine shops using only local resources.
“most ideally self-replicating von Neumann probes, basically like a fab lab or a machine shop on the moon that is able to make copies of itself using only native resources”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Ask the Mates Anything Round #2 | MOONSHOTS AMA #293 (Sep 22, 2026) · Listen from 21:20
Episodes
Ask the Mates Anything Round #2 | MOONSHOTS AMA #293Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Sep 22, 2026 · 1 h 27 min
Diamandis, Blundin, Wissner-Gross and Ismail answer audience questions on AI safety, universities, robotics, longevity, Europe and abundance.
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