I co-founded Eon as a public benefit corporation whose mission is to create reliable, scalable, and provably human emulation of intelligence from neurobiological detail, and to make it an actual option for humanity in the next decade. I think is a safer path than de novo AGI (from bugs or bad actors) and one that allows humanity to participate in a world with superintelligence. Mapping the architecture of the human brain can also help AI be more robust and more human, as well as start to understand the brain(including curing disease) and intelligence along the way. www.eon.systems
Previously
At Atomos I worked on strategy, recruiting, fundraising, and building optical computers and massively parallel optical networking systems. I've investigated alternative computing methods like superconducting single quantum flux logic and done hands-on Si and Nb microfabrication. Now advising as my brother runs it with a cracked team of electronics, optical engineers and physicists, currently focused on humanoid robotics. www.atomos.systems
Before that I co-founded an electron microscopy DNA sequencing company, which built high-speed, mass producible, smallest electron microscope in the world. (spun out, currently one scope is on the ISS)
Some Interests
The future of life, global priorities research (working on an equation to help prioritize causes), longtermism, machine intelligence, AI safety, unconventional computing, organ preservation, transhumanism, kaizen, productivity, archiving, self-identity, connectomics, whole brain emulation, population ethics. I'd like to see more experiments testing the simulation hypothesis.