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
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Cancers, Contributors, and the Greater Good
If humanity is able to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI), it is unanimously seen as good that humanity should be permitted, to do whatever they choose. For example: Some humans…
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The Meiji Era of Humanity
There are times in the history of civilization where change is not an option, only how we change. The choice is the between: We’ll discuss how this dynamic applies to…
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Joe Carlsmith – A Wiser, AI-Powered Civilization is the “Successor” (Worthy Successor, Episode 15)
This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Joe Carlsmith, a senior advisor at Open Philanthropy, whose work spans AI alignment, moral uncertainty, and the philosophical…
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Blaise Agüera y Arcas – AGI Symbiosis and the Arrow of Intelligence (Worthy Successor, Episode 14)
This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Vice President and Fellow at Google, and CTO of Technology & Society. His work…
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Against the Thermodynamic God – A Critique of Accelerationism
The “thermodynamic god” is modern e/acc Twitter-speak for the impersonal, ultimate, accelerating, entropy-driven process that Land sees as underlying all intelligence and technological evolution. The idea is that entropy “wants”…


