AGI Strategies

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Marc Raibert

Marc Raibert

Boston Dynamics founder; AI Institute executive director

Founder of Boston Dynamics and now executive director of the AI Institute (Hyundai-backed). Veteran roboticist with views shaped by decades of building physical machines that have to behave in the real world.

current Executive Director, AI Institute
past Founder, ex-CEO, Boston Dynamics
@BostonDynamics

Strategy positions

AI skepticmixed

AGI risk narratives overstated; real harms are mundane and current

Skeptical of AGI timelines from a roboticist's perspective; argues physical-world generality is much further than language-only benchmarks suggest, and that the bottleneck is real-world data.

Robotics is hard. The gap between getting something to work in simulation and getting it to work in the real world has not narrowed nearly as much as the language-AI hype suggests.
articleMarc Raibert on building robots· AI Institute· 2023· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Marc Raibert'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.