Thinking about possible futures of human civilization in a post-AGI world through AI alignment and coordination research​

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Has over 4 decades at the forefront of compute, bringing the Macintosh, RISC, SaaS, cloud services, and Language Processing Units to market. 

Established the first piece of legislation to protect AI from US regulation as a key advisor on Montana's "Right to Compute" Bill.

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Represents over 30 years experience in network and data center infrastructure consulting, overseeing Data Center and Cloud practices and sales for the Western US.

Working on how to ensure there is enough capacity to build and support the data centers and compute for an AI-powered future.​​​​

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Examining how AI-assisted translation of religious and philosophical texts accelerates transmission and redefines the role of the scholar.

Building robotic factories to increase domestic advanced manufacturing capacity. Fellow at the Center for Industrial Strategy.

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Bringing insightful, original, and credible perspectives on technology and the future to life, from concept to printed book​​.

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Launching from prior urban innovation projects like Maker City and Gray Area, he's updating city planning and policy decisions with AI and systems modeling. Fellowships at the USC Annenberg Center and Aspen Institute.

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With 30 years of software & open source leadership for companies like Amazon and HP, directed projects including Linux's Core Infra, AI & Data, SPDX, and TODO Group. Advised Amazon's LLM training data, AI hosting, and AI modification of OSS, documentation, & data policies.

Focuses on removing the bottlenecks to bringing more compute to market. ​​​​​​​

Decentralizing access to compute marketplaces for sellers and buyers.​​​​​​​​​​

Developed the MLOps practice at Veritone in 2014 helping take them public. Ran several products including workflow tools to orchestrate ML models.

Working on AI tools to facilitate better calibrated policy and more robust decision making in government.

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Among other complex dynamics, studying the mix of factors on whether data centers will result in raising or lowering the cost of power for everyone else.​​

Building AI for local governments with trusted provenance and inference with the CTO of OpenGov.

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A full-stack, default tolerant approach from compiler to chip fab for processor production resilience and availability.​

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Searching for a new architectural language through mechanistic interpretability and Palladian design principles.​

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Sharing insights on "The New Culture of Sloptimism and Hypergambling" from helping raise money in global online networks and leveraging AI-powered diligence.​​​​

Covering across expertise, topics, and industries from compute, energy, networking, defense, manufacturing, policy, and cultural production.

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