person

James Manyika

SVP of Research, Technology and Society at Google-Alphabet

Former McKinsey Global Institute chair who now runs research, tech, and society at Alphabet. Signatory to the Statement on AI Risk; public voice for measured 'shared prosperity' framings.

current SVP of Research, Technology and Society, Alphabet

@JamesManyika

Strategy positions

Existential primacyendorses

Extinction/disempowerment risk overrides ordinary cost-benefit

Signatory to the Statement on AI Risk.

“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”

¶ articleStatement on AI Risk· Center for AI Safety· 2023-05-30· direct quote

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

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

Alan Robock
shared 1 · J=1.00
Rutgers climate scientist; nuclear winter researcher
Andy Jones
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Anthropic researcher; scaling inference laws
Avital Balwit
shared 1 · J=1.00
Anthropic communications lead; public-facing AI safety voice
Bill McKibben
shared 1 · J=1.00
Environmental writer; Middlebury scholar
Cade Metz
shared 1 · J=1.00
NYT AI reporter; Genius Makers author
Clay Graubard
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Forecaster; RAND and Good Judgment contributor

Record last updated 2026-04-25.