person
Robert Wright
Author of 'Nonzero'; AI as evolution
Author and intellectual whose work on game theory, evolution, and consciousness has informed his recent commentary on AI as a continuation of the evolutionary process.
Profile
expertise
External-domain expert
Recognised expert outside AI (philosophy, economics, biology, journalism) who weighs in on AI consequences from that vantage.
Journalist. 'Nonzero' (2000) framed cooperation in evolutionary terms; Bloggingheads.tv founder. Engages AI through cooperation/Newcomb-style lens.
recognition
Field-leading
Widely known inside the AI and AI-safety community. Appears repeatedly in top venues, podcasts, or governance forums. Not a household name to outsiders.
NYT bestseller author; recurring podcast presence.
vintage
Symbolic era
Career started in the GOFAI / expert-systems / early-rationalist period. Vinge's 1993 Singularity, MIRI founded 2000, Bostrom and Yudkowsky writing.
Nonzero 2000. Bloggingheads 2005. AI-and-cooperation frame predates deep learning.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
Strategy positions
Techno-optimismmixedtentative
Technology and markets solve risks faster than regulation creates themFrames AI as a continuation of evolutionary processes; less alarmed about extinction, more concerned about value drift.
AI is a continuation of the evolutionary process. The question is whether the process drifts toward our values or against them.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.