Learn from the Brightest Minds in Banking AI
Hi I’m
Dan Faggella
I founded Emerj Artificial Intelligence Research, a market research company focused on the ROI of AI among the Fortune 500. I’ve conducted nearly a thousand interviews with Fortune 500 AI leaders (Raytheon, US Bank, etc), AI unicorn startup C-level folks (Dataiku, Domino Data Labs, OakNorth, etc.), and AI researchers (Yoshua Bengio, Nick Bostrom, etc).
I believe:
- Creating posthuman intelligence will be the most morally consequential event we can think of. We should aim to ensure that this final creation is a worthy successor.
- Moralizing AGI governance and innovation (calling some “bad” and others “good”) is disingenuous. All players are selfish. We should focus squarely and with good faith on the incentives of the players involved in order to find a way forward for humanity, and intelligence itself.
Present focus:
- Growing Emerj.
- Putting the realpolitik of AGI and the posthuman transition on blast with the Trajectory.
Stay in touch:
Twitter / LinkedIn / Trajectory newsletter / AI in Business Podcast
Other:
- Literature, esp. Plutarch, Emerson, Montaigne
- Classical architecture, and history.
- Εξασκώ τα ελληνικά μου, αλλά είναι ακόμα μέτρια.
Latest articles and podcasts
Kristian Rönn – A Blissful Successor Beyond Darwinian Life [Worthy Successor, Episode 9]
This is an interview with Kristian Rönn, author, startup founder, and now CEO of Lucid, and AI hardware governance startup based in San Francisco. In this episode Kristian explores his…
Stewarding the Flame – How to Build an Ideal Future for Intelligence
In expressing my notion of the Worthy Successor, or any kind of idea about entities with more potentia and moral value that present-day humans, people sometimes suspect that Worthy Successor…
What the Worthy Successor Is and Is Not
Since the publication of the Worthy Successor essay in 2023 I’ve been glad to see the enthusiasm around exploring posthuman futures from people in tech and policy (especially on Twitter,…
Human-AI Merger and Mind Uploads – Pros, Cons, and Scenarios
As the AGI race intensifies, it brings to bear more questions about what humanity’s role is in the future of life and intelligence. People ask: “How can we stay alive?”…
Jack Shanahan – Avoiding an AI Race While Keeping America Strong [US-China AGI Relations, Episode 1]
This is an interview with Jack Shanahan, a three-star General and former Director of the Joint AI Center (JAIC) within the US Department of Defense. Surely, a defense leader like…