Sean Gourley is a physicist, founder and CEO of AI company, Primer, an expert on the mathematics of war, TED Fellow, speaker and political advisor.

Before that, he was CTO and co-founder of Quid, an augmented-intelligence company and also worked on self-repairing nano-circuits at NASA. Sean was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford focused on complex systems and the mathematical patterns underlying modern war which was published on the cover of Nature.

He has served as a political advisor, briefed USCENTCOM at the Pentagon and addressed the United Nations in Vienna, serves on the Board of Directors at Anadarko (NYSE:APC).

Sean is also a two-time New Zealand track and field champion and sits on the Knight Commission focused on reforming collegiate athletics.

Listen and Learn:

* The future of the US-China relationship, and possible war

* What differentiates AI creativity from humans

* The automation law that ALWAYS leads to occasional epic consequences

* Should we develop autonomous weapons? Will we

* What are the biggest predictors of war and civil strife

* Why San Francisco is anything but a model city

* Are cyborgs and genetic superhumans inevitable

* How long until we have human-level AI

* Why economic war creates the conditions for actual fighting

* What works well with mutually assured destruction

* How to engineer equality into our economy

* Why Sean is worried about deep fakes breaking democracy

* How to think about dynamic geopolitical decisions

* The importance of education and what its future holds

 

Sean’s Twitter: @sgourley

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Sean Gourley is a physicist, founder and CEO of AI company, Primer, an expert on the mathematics of war, TED Fellow, speaker and political advisor.

Before that, he was CTO and co-founder of Quid, an augmented-intelligence company and also worked on self-repairing nano-circuits at NASA. Sean was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford focused on complex systems and the mathematical patterns underlying modern war which was published on the cover of Nature.

He has served as a political advisor, briefed USCENTCOM at the Pentagon and addressed the United Nations in Vienna, serves on the Board of Directors at Anadarko (NYSE:APC).

Sean is also a two-time New Zealand track and field champion and sits on the Knight Commission focused on reforming collegiate athletics.

Listen and Learn:

* The future of the US-China relationship, and possible war

* What differentiates AI creativity from humans

* The automation law that ALWAYS leads to occasional epic consequences

* Should we develop autonomous weapons? Will we

* What are the biggest predictors of war and civil strife

* Why San Francisco is anything but a model city

* Are cyborgs and genetic superhumans inevitable

* How long until we have human-level AI

* Why economic war creates the conditions for actual fighting

* What works well with mutually assured destruction

* How to engineer equality into our economy

* Why Sean is worried about deep fakes breaking democracy

* How to think about dynamic geopolitical decisions

* The importance of education and what its future holds

 

Sean’s Twitter: @sgourley