Franceschetti: In five years bots will likely buy and run cybercabs
Matteo Franceschetti · Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots, Cybercabs: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World · Sep 12, 2026 · at 31:10
Responding to Harry Stebbings' question about what behaviors that seem crazy today will become commonplace in five years, Matteo Franceschetti envisions agentic autonomous commercial fleets.
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“Probably your bot buying a cyber cab that will start making money for you. So you will buy a cyber cab that makes money for you with a bot, and the bot runs the cyber cab.”
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