AGI Strategies

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Pedro Domingos

Pedro Domingos

UW emeritus; The Master Algorithm author

University of Washington ML pioneer who wrote The Master Algorithm (2015). Now a public voice against what he calls the AI-safety-induced 'existential risk' panic and against what he sees as illiberal AI regulation.

current Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of Washington
wikipedia@pmddomingos

Strategy positions

AI skepticendorses

AGI risk narratives overstated; real harms are mundane and current

Publicly critical of existential-risk framings; argues the bigger risk is under-adoption and illiberal regulation.

AI's greatest risk is not having enough of it.
✍ blogAI's Greatest Risk Is Not Having Enough of It· Medium· 2024· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Pedro Domingos'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.