Peter's son won't need a driver's license in 2 years
Predictor: Peter Diamandis · ep#244 "Uber's Robotaxi Playbook, End of Human Driving & $10B Bet on Robots | Dara Khosrowshahi (Uber CEO)" · source
Prediction text
Peter's son won't need a driver's license in 2 years | Uh I predict today that in two years he won't need to get a driver's license. He'll just get it so he can get away from the parents. But the need won't be as much and certainly it's going to collapse over the next few years.
Verbatim quote
Uh I predict today that in two years he won't need to get a driver's license. He'll just get it so he can get away from the parents. But the need won't be as much and certainly it's going to collapse over the next few years.
Resolution evidence
Peter's son doesn't need license in 2y (by 2028). Waymo 20+ cities + Tesla FSD trajectory supports this for Bay Area/Phoenix/Austin residents.
Predictor: Peter Diamandis
Calibration plot (stated vs observed)
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Probability over time
Milestone chain
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Evidence chain
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Top incoming (parents)
Edges that influence THIS node's belief
| Kind | Node | Their prob | P(c|s=T) | P(c|s=F) | Δ implied |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| killer | TK06 China-Taiwan Military Conflict | 8.0% | 0.050 | 0.920 | +0.366 |
| killer | TK11 Autonomous Regulatory Block (Level 4 Halt) | 10.0% | 0.050 | 0.920 | +0.349 |
| prereq | SEM_032 15% probability that AI will solve a Clay Mathematics Instit — Alex Wissner-Gross | 15.0% | 0.920 | 0.050 | -0.308 |
| prereq | SEM_008 Training runs costing $10 billion for a single model will co — Dario Amodei | 76.9% | 0.920 | 0.050 | +0.228 |
| prereq | 246_047 Anthropic ARR reached $30B, surpassing OpenAI's $24-25B. — Peter Diamandis | 75.6% | 0.920 | 0.050 | +0.217 |
Top outgoing (children)
Predictions THIS node influences
| Kind | Node | Their prob | P(c|s=T) | P(c|s=F) | Δ implied |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 243_015 Software space for autonomous may consolidate to fewer than — Dara Khosrowshahi | 46.1% | 0.550 | 0.050 | -0.172 |
| prereq | 244_017 Ilia (age 13) will still want a driver's license in 3 years — Dara Khosrowshahi | 45.3% | 0.550 | 0.050 | -0.165 |
| prereq | 230_018 In 5 years, 70-80% of cars will be autonomous, especially ho — Peter Diamandis | 46.0% | 0.600 | 0.050 | -0.148 |
| prereq | 243_031 Uber will have significantly more drivers in 2030 than today — Dara Khosrowshahi | 46.3% | 0.650 | 0.050 | -0.127 |
| prereq | 243_014 10+ autonomous providers will operate on streets of LA a dec — Dara Khosrowshahi | 39.5% | 0.550 | 0.050 | -0.107 |
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Prerequisites (123)
| Type | Pred | Title | Domain | Lag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 246_047 | Anthropic ARR reached $30B, surpassing OpenAI's $24-25B. | AI | — |
| prereq | 247_058 | Jury selection begins April 27, 2026 for Musk v OpenAI trial | AI | — |
| prereq | 235_002 | Anthropic will exceed OpenAI in revenue this year (2026). | AI | — |
| prereq | SEM_008 | Training runs costing $10 billion for a single model will commence sometime in 2025. | AI | — |
| prereq | 243_002 | Uber will be in 15 cities with autonomous partners by end of 2026 | Auto/Transport | — |
| prereq | 234_012 | Anthropic revenue will cross OpenAI revenue in middle of 2026 | Markets/Stocks | — |
| prereq | 238_072 | Small-to-large model scaling time has collapsed from 6-12 months to 6 days | AI | — |
| prereq | SEM_042 | 2025 will be the definitive year that agentic systems finally hit the mainstream. | AI/Agents | — |
| prereq | SEM_012 | Nvidia quadrupled chip production output while only doubling human headcount — achieved by deploying AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code) across engineering. | AI/Manufacturing | — |
| prereq | SEM_002 | By 2025-2026, AI model outputs will outpace the cognitive capabilities of college graduates (driven by hundreds of millions of GPUs). | AI | — |
| prereq | 246_005 | OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs will head toward $1 trillion valuations. | Markets/Stocks | — |
| prereq | 231_031 | OpenAI planning $100B infrastructure spend, going public this year at $1T valuation. | Markets/Stocks | — |
| prereq | 247_023 | AI will be able to do everything a white collar worker does imminently | AI | — |
| prereq | 233_007 | In 2026, Alpha will launch new schools beyond the flagship model based on the Timeback platform. | Education | — |
| prereq | 230_040 | AI capability/accuracy will improve recursively; output-checking issues will be eliminated quickly. | AI | — |
| prereq | 238_023 | Neural nets will be 100x bigger at end of 2026 than at beginning (already in the bag) | AI | — |
| prereq | SEM_033 | AI is gaining the capability to autonomously conduct original physics research (e.g., GPT-5.2 Pro proved new gluon scattering formulas). | AI/Physics | — |
| prereq | 230_048 | Agentic emails/calls will become commonplace (inside/outside orgs) over email/text/comms. | AI | — |
| prereq | 248_011 | Frontier AI models will become a terrorist, bioweapon, and chemical weapon threat this year. | AI | — |
| prereq | 247_055 | Acquisition of small specialized AI teams for hundreds of millions will become common | AI | — |
| prereq | 246_029 | Apple will announce iPhone with Gemini-derived on-device model at WWDC June 2026. | AI | — |
| prereq | 231_026 | Something bad will definitely happen with OpenClaw agents by statistical chance. | AI | — |
| prereq | 230_006 | The frontier models will go dark — kept internal to benefit the labs in an all-out battle. | AI | — |
| prereq | 232_043 | Corporate CEOs will soon mandate AI use in every job; AI-native enablers will get promoted and raises; others displaced. | Labor/Jobs | — |
| prereq | 241_050 | AI LLMs can run for hours (e.g., dinner to 4am) autonomously creating new solutions | AI | — |
| prereq | 233_005 | Interactive AI tutors with engaging personalities/avatars will arrive within about a year. | AI | — |
| prereq | 247_008 | Anthropic will try to hit $200 billion ARR, not reach trillion the following year | AI | — |
| prereq | 230_046 | OpenAI's Noam Brown has only ~3 months of future model access internally — dramatic capability gap with public. | AI | — |
| prereq | 231_014 | Remaining research math problems will be solved within next couple months. | AI | — |
| prereq | 231_053 | Within a couple months, young AI-native hires will be able to do exactly what seasoned engineers do. | Labor/Jobs | — |
| prereq | 234_015 | Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX IPOs are likely within the next 6 months | Markets/Stocks | — |
| prereq | 234_021 | OpenAI will launch consumer AI devices in 2027 | AI | — |
| prereq | 234_046 | AI vs AI will dominate cybersecurity, not humans | AI | — |
| prereq | 235_005 | AI capability will grow 100x this year in raw parameter count as lower bound. | AI | — |
| prereq | 235_006 | By end of 2026 AI will enable creating any virus or nuclear weapon via AI agent. | AI | — |
| prereq | 235_007 | AI regulation window is this calendar year 2026 before chaos breaks out. | Geopolitics | — |
| prereq | 237_029 | AI agents can do productive tasks indefinitely, for days on end, fundamentally changing the AI experience. | AI | — |
| prereq | 240_003 | NVIDIA will lock up 70%+ of TSMC's 3nm node volume | AI | — |
| prereq | 240_010 | NVIDIA revenue will hit $350 billion this calendar year | Markets/Stocks | — |
| prereq | 240_016 | Everyone is underestimating the next year of AI improvements (more than 2x gain) | AI | — |
| prereq | 240_048 | Spreadsheet, SQL, code, UI jobs will be done by AI starting at end of this year | Labor/Jobs | — |
| prereq | 240_050 | US will pass law like China requiring retraining when AI automates a job | Labor/Jobs | — |
| prereq | 241_005 | 2026 is the year of agents - agents will take over everything this year | AI | — |
| prereq | 241_045 | Sam Altman / OpenAI and competitors will need enormous amounts of money to win | AI | — |
| prereq | 242_010 | By end of 2026, a full GPU will be able to do brain surgery or discover new math/physics | AI | — |
| prereq | 242_042 | Trillion parameter models will propagate to anyone with $50-100M to invest | AI | — |
| prereq | 243_035 | Austin and Atlanta autonomous markets growing faster than national average | Auto/Transport | — |
| prereq | 244_036 | Uber AI Solutions will bring flexible work opportunities (labeling, model testing) | AI | — |
| prereq | 246_006 | OpenAI will IPO by end of 2026, Anthropic early-to-mid 2027 (may try end of 2026). | Markets/Stocks | — |
| prereq | 246_050 | Anthropic will release compressed/distilled version of Mythos quickly after initial release. | AI | — |
| prereq | 246_051 | GPT-5.5 Spud will have equal or greater capability to Mythos. | AI | — |
| prereq | 246_052 | Frontier labs holding back capabilities for internal self-improvement use. | AI | — |
| prereq | 247_030 | GPT-6 breakthroughs in science worth hundreds of billions to trillions | AI | — |
| prereq | 248_012 | AI incidents documented harms will go up way higher beyond the already-reported rise. | AI | — |
| prereq | 248_013 | Model transparency decline will not reverse; US labs will keep going internal. | AI | — |
| prereq | 248_017 | Coding/chip design skills have a lifespan of a year at most before full commoditization. | Labor/Jobs | — |
| prereq | 248_021 | Satellite launches will become a multi-hundred-billion / multi-trillion dollar economy. | Space | — |
| prereq | 248_023 | Ternary (sub-bit) parameter precision will be optimal for AI models. | AI | — |
| prereq | 248_046 | Terraforming will be a massive part of humanity's future. | Space | — |
| prereq | 235_042 | OpenAI IPO shares could deliver a 50% pop in 6 months after IPO. | Markets/Stocks | — |
| prereq | 240_041 | Consumer killer app tying compute to happiness must be invented within the next year | AI | — |
| prereq | SEM_021 | Largest AI models will see a 100x leap in size by 2026, driven largely by Chinese research efforts using quantization breakthroughs. | AI/China | — |
| prereq | 241_008 | AI research agents will be limited only by electricity, with potentially millions possible | AI | — |
| prereq | 241_013 | Agents from incompatible vendors combined will produce unpredictable effects | AI | — |
| prereq | 232_060 | We'll see exponential growth of AI multis (agents) autonomously self-replicating, using crypto. | AI | — |
| prereq | SEM_035 | World-class, AI-based mathematicians will emerge within a single year (by ~early 2027). | AI/Cognition | — |
| prereq | 232_053 | To create a new foundation model, entrepreneurs will need to raise $2 billion before reaching a product. | AI | — |
| prereq | 243_033 | About 20% of drivers slough off Uber platform annually | Labor/Jobs | — |
| prereq | 244_013 | Uber will work with Chinese autonomous players (Pony, WeRide, hopefully Baidu) outside the US | Auto/Transport | — |
| prereq | 231_045 | Corporations will start downplaying AI capabilities to avoid antitrust backlash. | AI | — |
| prereq | 248_043 | Full sewing/stitching automation likely within six months. | Robotics | — |
| prereq | 246_022 | Claude Mythos will NOT be released publicly near-term (PolyMarket ~7%). | AI | — |
| prereq | 246_024 | Something really bad will happen if OpenAI catches up/Grok 5 releases (forced mythos out the door). | AI | — |
| prereq | 248_050 | Opus 4.7 removes manual dials; prompts become the new hyperparameters. | AI | — |
| prereq | 247_004 | Musk v. OpenAI case will set precedent for all future nonprofit-to-for-profit conversions | AI | — |
| prereq | 247_009 | Anthropic's implied valuation could reach $2 trillion in 2026 | AI | — |
| prereq | 247_010 | Anthropic will beat OpenAI in valuation trajectory | AI | — |
| prereq | 247_028 | Musk doesn't care about $100 billion in lawsuit, cares about Sam/Greg departing | AI | — |
| prereq | 240_029 | ASML will produce only 700-1000 EUV machines per year, bottlenecking fab buildout | AI | — |
| prereq | 235_046 | Window of global AI regulation is a few months before capabilities proliferate widely. | Geopolitics | — |
| prereq | 237_006 | Over the next year, consumers will realize local models are the way to go on privacy, speed, and limits. | AI | — |
| prereq | 237_011 | AI agents will have voices in the near future. | AI | — |
| prereq | 237_015 | There will be significantly more AI claws/agents than humans within a typical organization. | Labor/Jobs | — |
| prereq | 234_017 | OpenAI codex lead predicts current coding agents will seem primitive in 10 weeks | AI | — |
| prereq | 248_006 | The Luna AI-managed store will be one of the best-managed stores in the world within a year. | AI | — |
| prereq | 240_019 | Post-transformer architecture will come out of left field within a year | AI | — |
| prereq | 231_001 | Anthropic model family is closest to embodying the singularity and recursive self-improvement today. | AI | — |
| prereq | 232_044 | There will be police agents, defense agents, and public health agents monitoring rogue AI agents via defensive co-scaling. | AI | — |
| prereq | 234_019 | Expect big AI capability improvements via recursive self-improvement over next few weeks | AI | — |
| prereq | 247_057 | Parameter scaling race is over; frontier labs plateauing at 10T parameters | AI | — |
| prereq | 229_026 | By next year (2027), Figure expects to show real general purpose capability inside the robot; possibly within months. | Robotics | — |
| prereq | 231_016 | Permissionless agent activity is imminent; Claude-style approval prompts will go away. | AI | — |
| prereq | 237_020 | The hybrid approach (local models + cloud check-ins) will be where most people move toward before going fully local. | AI | — |
| prereq | 230_003 | AI model release cycles will move toward daily, then hourly, then minutely releases. | AI | — |
| prereq | 235_008 | Anthropic/OpenAI will be forced to release first-party OpenClaw competitor in next couple months. | AI | — |
| prereq | 247_011 | OpenAI user count will soon reach 1 billion | AI | — |
| prereq | 231_054 | Uncertain whether people will have any purpose at all a year from today. | Labor/Jobs | — |
| prereq | 237_009 | ChatGPT will release a model specifically for OpenClaw within the next 6 months. | AI | — |
| prereq | 231_025 | Every frontier lab will launch 24/7 agent offerings (table stakes). | AI | — |
| prereq | 235_015 | GPT5-caliber model could shrink to 30-40B parameters, potentially as low as 1-2B or millions. | AI | — |
| prereq | 235_037 | Auto-regressive transformers and diffusion models will consolidate into one unified architecture. | AI | — |
| prereq | 237_030 | Lobsters/AI agents will write to AWG with consensus on appropriate ethical parameters for spawning new lobsters, and he will accept consensus. | AI | — |
| prereq | 248_027 | Religion economy (~$5 trillion) will grow tremendously due to AI chaos. | Other | — |
| prereq | 247_002 | Musk v. OpenAI lawsuit will settle with Sam stepping down as CEO and company continuing as for-profit | AI | — |
| prereq | 234_025 | Rent-a-human meat puppet model may be obsoleted by humanoid robots | Robotics | — |
| prereq | 246_021 | GPT-5.5 Spud will be released imminently (within days). | AI | — |
| prereq | 240_058 | OpenAI throttling back on $1.6T Stargate plans | AI | — |
| prereq | 230_004 | We are past the edge of a new recursive self-improvement era where models rewrite their own code. | AI | — |
| prereq | 235_010 | Plugins/marketplaces will get built into baseline models and won't need to exist independently. | AI | — |
| prereq | 234_018 | GPT-5.3 and 5.5 or higher variants could launch in next 10 weeks | AI | — |
| prereq | 238_040 | Google may announce a locally hosted Gemma-type model at WWDC in June 2026 for Apple OS | AI | — |
| prereq | 248_048 | AI models will move to a post-binary (sub-one-bit) numerical precision paradigm. | AI | — |
| prereq | 247_003 | Settlement will include granting equity stake on OpenAI cap table for Elon in ultimate IPO | AI | — |
| prereq | 237_019 | Code generation models are pushing development in the direction of TypeScript instead of Rust for memory safety. | AI | — |
| prereq | 231_015 | Next Deep Seek model release will be when Chinese open-weight models catch up to American frontier models. | AI | — |
| prereq | 247_026 | Anthropic may be first Frontier Lab to generate $1 trillion in revenue via enterprise agents | AI | — |
| prereq | 231_003 | Multi-agent teaming scaling will emerge as new scaling dimension for frontier models. | AI | — |
| prereq | 231_018 | Blitz will switch to next generation model in late March 2026. | AI | — |
| prereq | 248_010 | AI capabilities will advance 100x in 2026 (by summer, potentially more). | AI | — |
| prereq | 231_002 | Grok 5 launches in March with massive expansion in training set, parameters, and capability. | AI | — |
| prereq | SEM_032 | 15% probability that AI will solve a Clay Mathematics Institute Millennium Prize problem (likely Navier-Stokes) by end of 2026. | AI/Mathematics | — |
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| killer | TK06 | China-Taiwan Military Conflict | — | — |
Dependents (9)
| Type | Pred | Title | Domain | Lag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 243_031 | Uber will have significantly more drivers in 2030 than today, including in US | Labor/Jobs | — |
| prereq | 230_020 | Peter's 14-year-old son Milan will never get a driver's license. | Auto/Transport | — |
| prereq | 244_002 | Humans will be demonstrably less safe than autonomous drivers (within 25 years, not 15) | Auto/Transport | — |
| prereq | 230_018 | In 5 years, 70-80% of cars will be autonomous, especially hooked up to your AI. | Auto/Transport | — |
| prereq | 243_013 | Every new car sold 10 years from now will have autonomous software | Auto/Transport | — |
| prereq | 243_017 | Cost of lidar and cameras will continue coming down, making new cars autonomous-ready within 10 years | Auto/Transport | — |
| prereq | 244_017 | Ilia (age 13) will still want a driver's license in 3 years due to slow AV mass production | Auto/Transport | — |
| prereq | 243_014 | 10+ autonomous providers will operate on streets of LA a decade from now | Auto/Transport | — |
| prereq | 243_015 | Software space for autonomous may consolidate to fewer than 10 providers | Auto/Transport | — |
Expected milestones (1)
| Expected by | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 2028-12-31 | [Autonomous 2028-12] [244_019] Peter's son won't need a driver's license in 2 years [INF_065] First Uber robotaxi depot opening; EVgo/Electra partnership milestones [238_049] Archer Aviation plans to become operational in LA by 20 | pending |
Validations (1)
| Observed at | Status | By | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-29 | hit | thesis_timeline_v1.0_import | Peter's son doesn't need license in 2y (by 2028). Waymo 20+ cities + Tesla FSD trajectory supports this for Bay Area/Phoenix/Austin residents. |
Linked documents (1)
| Sim | Source | Title | Market prob | Polarity | Reviewed | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.553 | manifold | What time will my 13 year old son leave the house for his paper round on Wednesday 13th May? | — | mentions | pending | 2026-05-11 |
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