Friedberg says AI enables in-silico simulation of complex mining projects that previously required thousand-plus person analyst and engineering programs.
“And then how are you gonna refine the ore? Every one of those steps of that deeply complicated, highly technical project can now be run-in Silico.”
Friedberg cites US graduates only 200 mining degree holders annually, questioning shift to foreign resource dependence.
“You gave me a statistic, which I hadn't heard before, which is we only graduate 200 people in degrees in mining today. Why did we stop mining?”