AGI Strategies

person

Bret Kugelmass

CEO of Last Energy; 'energy is the governance variable' framing

MIT-trained entrepreneur who argues that compute, energy, and AI governance are the same problem, and that micro-reactor deployment is necessary to decouple AI progress from fossil-energy constraints.

current Founder and CEO, Last Energy

Strategy positions

Techno-optimismendorses

Technology and markets solve risks faster than regulation creates them

Argues energy infrastructure is the governing variable for AI progress and should be the primary policy lever.

AI is fundamentally an energy problem. If you want to govern AI, govern compute; if you want to govern compute, govern energy.
articleLast Energy· Last Energy· 2024· loose paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Bret Kugelmass's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

  • A. Michael Spence

    A. Michael Spence

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Stanford economist; Nobel laureate; AI economic effects

  • Aaron Levie

    Aaron Levie

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Box co-founder and CEO

  • Adam D'Angelo

    Adam D'Angelo

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    CEO of Quora; OpenAI board member

  • Adam Jonas

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Morgan Stanley equity analyst; embodied AI and humanoid robots lead

  • Aidan McLaughlin

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    OpenAI scaling researcher

  • Aman Sanger

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Cursor co-founder

Record last updated 2026-04-25.