Founder10x - Will AI End Human Civilization? - Shaw Walters, Founder, ElizaOS

2025-09-30

Shaw Walters is the founder of ElizaOS—the popular GitHub repository for AI agent development that is powering over $20 billion in projects, all built without venture funding.We dive into whether AI will end civilization, what are multi-agent systems, why Shaw chose open source over proprietary AI, and his prediction that we'll need nuclear power plants for next-gen AI. This conversation will challenge how you think about our AI future.⭐ Sponsored by Podcast10x - Podcasting agency for VCs - https://podcast10x.comElizaOS web...

Shaw Walters is the founder of ElizaOS—the popular GitHub repository for AI agent development that is powering over $20 billion in projects, all built without venture funding.

We dive into whether AI will end civilization, what are multi-agent systems, why Shaw chose open source over proprietary AI, and his prediction that we'll need nuclear power plants for next-gen AI. This conversation will challenge how you think about our AI future.

⭐ Sponsored by Podcast10x - Podcasting agency for VCs - https://podcast10x.com

ElizaOS website - https://elizaos.ai/

ElizaOS tutorial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8Ghq3cvD9g

🎙️ Hosted by Prashant Choubey

Follow Prashant on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/choubeysahab

We talk about:

- Open source strategy for AI development versus proprietary approaches

- Multi-agent systems and how AI agents communicate and coordinate with each other

- Current limitations of AI agents and their potential for complex task execution

- Whether AI will end human civilization and existential risks of artificial intelligence

- Energy requirements for future AI development and the need for nuclear power infrastructure

& more