ClaimsRodney Brooks

“I did not claim to be clairvoyant about exactly what would happen, rather I was making predictions about the speed of new research ideas, the speed of hype generation, the speed of large scale deployments of new technologies, and the speed of fundamental changes propagating through the world’s economy.”

Rodney Brooks 1 January 2026 Predictions Scorecard, 2026 January 01 (rodneybrooks.com) archived copy

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I did not claim to be clairvoyant about exactly what would happen, rather I was making predictions about the speed of new research ideas…

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Rodney Brooks, “I did not claim to be clairvoyant about exactly what would happen, rather I was making predictions about the speed of new research ideas…” (said 1 January 2026). Verdict: not checkable. Reliability API, claim c_8302253bb2b2, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_8302253bb2b2

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