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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Francis Heylighen – The Self-Organizing Universe After Humans (Worthy Successor, Episode 23)
This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Francis Heylighen, a professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and director of the Research Centre St. Leo…
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AGI Displacement of Work is the End of Man
It’s being stated very openly and frankly now (late February, 2026) that the singularity is near, and that the economic value of most (and soon, all?) humans will be negative….
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AGI ≠ Santa Claus
“Wow, I can’t wait for AGI! We’re about to be rich! Yay, Santa Claus is coming to town!” This is the sentiment of a child. Naive, irrational, and wholly at…
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Wish for More Work After AGI, Not Less
There is a perverse belief that humans “deserve” to be free from work. The ideal future painted by proponents of this belief is one where human happiness alone is the…
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Stephen Wolfram – In a Sea of Complexity, Does a “Successor” Exist? (Worthy Successor, Episode 22)
This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is a conversation with Stephen Wolfram, founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and the Wolfram Language, and a physicist…


