Alexander Wissner-Gross is a scientist and entrepreneur who writes The Innermost Loop and discusses technology on Moonshots.
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Wissner-Gross suggests understanding intelligence through the future choices it opens. He proposes designing machines to expand humanity’s options, while considering safeguards and redistribution if machine and human economies separate.
Open conversationWissner-Gross reads falling U.S. labor-force participation alongside rapid AI progress as an early sign of an economy with a smaller role for human labor. That is his interpretation of the figures, rather than a causal finding in the employment report.
Open conversationWissner-Gross asks how to detect a formally valid answer to a subtly changed problem. He questions whether open-world safety can be expressed compactly enough for a person to check.
Open conversationSurface ambitious technological forecasts as attributed positions that people can examine and challenge.
Host and guest investments and advocacy can shape selections; speculative forecasts remain distinct from observed results.
Public episode pages and publisher RSS with links to listening platforms
Track explicit interpretations of rapid technical change and their supporting references over time.
Selection and forecasts express an author's position; technical expertise does not settle economic or institutional consequences.
Public posts and RSS from Alexander Wissner-Gross; access varies by post