AGI Strategies

person

Holly Jean Buck

Buffalo geographer; climate AI critic

Buffalo geography professor who has written critically on AI's role in climate solutionism. Author of After Geoengineering. Frames AI-and-climate framings as often misleading.

current Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability, University at Buffalo, SUNY
@hollyjeanbuck

Strategy positions

AI skepticmixed

AGI risk narratives overstated; real harms are mundane and current

Argues AI claims to solve climate are often technosolutionist; the policy work is harder than the AI hype suggests.

AI cannot solve climate. AI plus politics might.
articleHolly Jean Buck, Buffalo· University at Buffalo· 2024· loose paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

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

  • Abhijit Banerjee

    Abhijit Banerjee

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    MIT economist; 2019 Nobel laureate

  • Ada Lovelace

    Ada Lovelace

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    First programmer; analytical engine theorist (1815–1852)

  • Aidan Gomez

    Aidan Gomez

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    CEO of Cohere; 'Attention Is All You Need' co-author

  • Alan Kay

    Alan Kay

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Object-oriented programming and personal computing pioneer

  • Alex Hanna

    Alex Hanna

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Director of Research at DAIR; Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

  • Andriy Burkov

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    ML engineer; 'The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book' author

Record last updated 2026-04-25.