Fact Check: Tony Robbins' AI and Robotics Predictions for the Next 36 Months

They initially expected this robot to work for eight hours. Instead, he worked literally 200 hours without stopping.

>> What's going to happen in the next 36 months? I have to give you three things, three technologies. A

>> Tony Robbins, who's not a pastor, who's not a biblical scholar, is just talking on the TBD podcast, and he himself

issues his own warning about the future of humanity. I mean, he's a world-renowned business strategist. He's

not a nobody. I mean, he's worked with some of the most influential people in technology. He's not just some

motivational speaker. And during his interview with PBD, he revealed what he believes is coming in the next 36

months. >> Right. So, let's look at what's happening right now. If I said to you,

there's going to be more change in the next 10 years to humanity than all of humanity's history. Do you buy that or

not buy that? >> I do. >> Yeah. Me, too. But, you know, when it's

10 years out, that's a way out. So, when I said I'm going to feed provide a billion meals 10 years from now, makes

you feel good. But you're not called to do anything today. But when I go, okay, that means this year I got to provide a

100red million meals and it took me 37 years. I had no money myself to get fed to feed others. Finally, I fed 42

million people in 37 years. Now I got to do 100 million in one year. I got to find a new way to do this. So with

technology, I take people and say, "Forget the 10 years. What's going to happen in the next 36 months? I'll give

you three things. Three technologies. A, we're going to have AGI. There's zero question. Some say we have it now.

Meaning one AI has more power and more understanding in mathematics or chemistry than any human.

>> In five to six years, we're going to have super intelligence where one AI will have the power of all human brains

combined. Then there's robotics. Have you met Brett Adcock yet? Figure AI. >> If you go to if you go to California

sometime, we'll set you up go you walk in his place. And it's not like those robots you see then from China where

they're doing automated automated stuff, karate, all that stuff, right? These are thinking oper. They're everywhere. It's

like you're in another universe. They're doing everything you can imagine. They're running everything, making

things happen. That's happening as we speak. And that within 10 years will be more robots than there probably are

humans. Think about like electricity. You don't think about electricity when you go someplace. You don't think about

what's going to cost. You know the power will be there. 10 years from now labor will be like electricity. So we have to

think differently. So if that's true, what's that going to disrupt? >> And this is what I'm going to share with

you a second of Brett Adak. When I watched Adcock, when I [clears throat] when I listened to this interview, I was

like, who is this guy? I want to see. And then it led me to this and it's going to lead lead you into a video of

those robots. Like I'm going to share them with you. It's wild. If you've never seen this,

I want you to think about what Tony just said. He believes the next 10 years could bring more change to humanity than

everything we've experienced throughout human history. And when he begins discussing robotics, he mentions this

figure here in AI. It's called figure AI. He says he's personally visited their facility, seeing these robots, and

describes meeting this Brett Adok or Adcock. Walking into his facility like another

universe. And so I want you to hear Brett himself, what his company's developing, what they're trying to

accomplish with these robots. And while he's talking, in just a moment, I'm going to share with you actual footage

of what this technology is actually doing. And then after that, we're going to go ahead and just watch the robot for

a second on full screen so you can really see and hear how strange this is. >> Can you explain what you're saying about

the holy grail for generalized? >> I mean, the product that we want to build is to have a robot show up your

house um and be able to just through speech and um maybe some memory conditioning uh able to just do work

like a great product. I just ask it to do laundry, dishes, um, and end to end, the robot can

execute these autonomously, safely. In order to create like the best quality product possible, go into places we've

never seen before, and do like real useful work. Um, it can't just stand around. We need to be able to do

laundry, dishes, tidy the home, unload groceries, cook food, walk the dog, take out your trash.

So, you know, we've been working really hard on building kind of like an entire deep like vertically integrated deep

learning skip stack work on the human hardware very aggressively towards what we think is like the ideal product. And

then, you know, now with Helix 2.5, we're able to take robots, you know, offsite here to home rentals and show

that we're able to start generalizing. Um, you know, it's like the early days here, so it's not perfect. Um, we wanted

to be able to take a certain set of tasks, we chose three. >> Okay.

>> So, as data got more data came in, the the the robot got better. And the way we quantified that is like what percentage

of time did it did it pick up all the toys in the living room? >> And uh what percentage of time did it

like did it did it make the bed end to end and did it fold like all the towels? And then we wanted to see as data was

coming in like larger data was coming in those got better like the percentages increased

>> and they did which was great. >> Watch this. Take a look at that. It's a robot

working inside a factory. According to the footage, they initially expected this robot to work for eight hours.

Instead, he worked literally 200 hours without stopping. And he was able to go through and sort through more than

240,000 items during that period. Now, I want us to think about that. We're talking about a machine performing

repetitive physical work. I mean, looking at it, he's just working like a person. Doesn't need to go home at the

end of the shift. doesn't have, you know, a family waiting for it. Doesn't have a paycheck.

>> There's some technology right in >> I mean no no children, no mortgage and there it is just working.

>> There's some technology right in front of us and we didn't know AI like we do now. Then I said just look at

self-driving cars as one example. I give you agriculture. I give you 10 examples. Let's take self-driving cars. Sometime

in the 8 to 12 years there not going to be any truck drivers. Who's going to pay a truck driver to

drive eight hours a day when I have a truck and do it 24 hours a day, not make mistakes? The insurance is cheaper and

no health insurance and I depreciate the asset. There will be a point where there'll be no truck drivers, no taxi

drivers, no Uber drivers, and there's 8 million. That was then, there's more now. 8 million in the economy. That's

one category. So, if you're a truck driver, a cab driver involving in transporting

vehicles, how you going to how you going to make money to feed yourself, feed your

family? What what new jobs are going to come out? Anybody else see a problem with this?

>> And he said to me at the time, he said, "Well, Tony, we think that's going to take 20, 25 years." And I said, "Well,

Mr. President, with all due respect, what if you're wrong?" And he said, "Well, there'll be new jobs." I said,

"There will be new jobs." 150 years ago 90 85% of us were farmers. Now it's 3% of America we feed the whole

world with technology but we had 150 years come up new jobs. I said there's an early disruption that we have to deal

with. He goes well we got basically too many fish to fry. And I respect that. He was going through hell at that time but

today everybody knows it. So I look at this and say how are we going to retool the country? I I got a 60-year-old

brother-in-law who just got laid off two months ago. Software engineer. They all told you to become a software engineer.

And now, of course, Vibe comes along. Now, you don't need Vibe. Now, all of a sudden, your AI does it. Your agent AI

does it in a heartbeat. Gary Conn's daughter, he told me, used to get a million dollars to crush code, right? I

don't 100,000 pieces down to whatever the number, so it's more efficient. Now, she doesn't have that job anymore as of

this year because an agent can do it in a few days. Now, she's pregnant. They have a lot of money. She has a new

mission. He's not worried about her. But my 60-year-old brother-in-law walks in, no severance. 650 people are let go of

on the spot. They sold the company to a Swedish company, made it a Gentic. And guess what? He's got two kids in

college. He's got a wife that works substitute teacher at $30,000 a year. And he's got a mortgage to pay.

>> When he says agentic, he's talking about an AI that will just do human work. You train it, it'll just do the work for

you. But what happens when humanity is no longer needed for work? That right there is something I believe we need to

pay close attention to. Tony describes a man who spent his career working as a software engineer, a profession that for

decades people were encouraged to pursue because of its earning potential. And now 60 years old, this man finds himself

unemployed. He still has a family, children in college. He has a mortgage. But the company he worked for has

changed. And according to Tony, AI played a role in that transition. This is a real concern. Technology and

advancements have always changed the way we work. That's true. Throughout history, we would develop machines,

but we're talking about how fast this could happen. How f this is is happening so fast. And this transition across

numerous industries at the same time. What happens when the skills somebody spent 20 or 30 years developing can

become less invaluable to employer almost overnight? What happens when millions of people potentially find

themselves competing for jobs in an economy and it's changing faster than they can retrain? God had already

established the value of your life. Humanity was created in his image. We were given the capacity to love, to

create, to build, to cultivate, and to exercise stewardship over this creation. And by the way, we were given work to

pursue even before the before sin. He gave us the garden to work it. This wasn't a punishment to work, my friends.

It's part of our nature. It's part of who we are to work. And now here we are. Antichrist type world wants to strip

that away from us and say, "No, no, no. We just want you to be we just want you to sit in a chair and do nothing or

maybe not even exist.