The Mathematics of War and Future of US-China Relations, Plus AI, Automation and Mutually Assured Destruction | Sean Gourley

Summary: 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: <a href="https://twitter.com/sgourley">@sgourley</a> Are you an accredited investor? <a href="https://thesyndicate.vc/ts-joinsyndicate">Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.</a> 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: <a href="https://twitter.com/sgourley">@sgourley</a>

The Mathematics of War and Future of US-China Relations, Plus AI, Automation and Mutually Assured Destruction | Sean Gourley

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