AGI Strategies

person

David Rolnick

McGill / Mila; Climate Change AI co-founder

McGill assistant professor and Mila core faculty; co-founder of Climate Change AI. Co-author of the influential 'Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning' (2019) paper.

current Assistant Professor of Computer Science, McGill University; Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Mila; Co-founder, Chair, Climate Change AI

Strategy positions

Differential technologyendorses

Preferentially develop protective technology over dangerous

Argues climate is the highest-leverage public-interest AI application and the most under-funded; calls for differential investment in protective rather than only optimizing technology.

Machine learning has high-impact applications across the climate change problem space, from forecasting and emissions reduction to behavioural change. We outline these systematically.
§ paperTackling Climate Change with Machine Learning· arXiv· 2019· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

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

  • Ilan Gur

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    ARIA UK CEO; ex-ARPA-E

  • Owen Cotton-Barratt

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    FHI alumnus; existential risk researcher

  • Sara Beery

    Sara Beery

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    MIT EAPS / CSAIL; AI for ecology

  • Vitalik Buterin

    Vitalik Buterin

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Ethereum co-founder; author of 'My techno-optimism' manifesto

Record last updated 2026-04-25.