What Salim Ismail has said about AI energy efficiency
1 quote · 1 episode · Nov 7, 2026
Salim Ismail, Founder of OpenExO and author on exponential organizations, co-host of Moonshots, has been quoted on AI energy efficiency once in 1 episode of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, most recently on November 7, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Ismail offers a provocative estimate that New York City creates far more economic value per gigawatt than Anthropic's AI, while acknowledging the comparison may be unfair.
“So there's a human metropolis is therefore like something like 30 times more energy efficient at creating value than the world's most advanced AI currently”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: The Great Collision Between Politics and AI | #309 (Nov 7, 2026) · Listen from 1:11:27
Episodes
The Great Collision Between Politics and AI | #309Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Nov 7, 2026 · 1 h 47 min
Salim Ismail, Alexander Wissner-Gross and Dave Blundin discuss how Democratic midterm gains and data-center backlash affect AI, markets, recursive self-improvement and orbital compute.
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