person
Stewart Brand
Long Now Foundation; Whole Earth Catalog founder
Long Now Foundation co-founder whose Whole Earth Catalog inspired generations of tech thinkers. Has commented on AI from a long-now perspective: civilisation-scale time horizons.
Profile
expertise
External-domain expert
Recognised expert outside AI (philosophy, economics, biology, journalism) who weighs in on AI consequences from that vantage.
Whole Earth Catalog founder; Long Now Foundation. Long-horizon framing influential in tech culture. Not an AI contributor.
recognition
Household name
Name recognition outside the AI/CS community. Featured by mainstream press, a Wikipedia page in many languages, a published bestseller, or holds a position the lay public knows.
Counter-cultural-tech profile; mainstream press regular.
vintage
Symbolic era
Career started in the GOFAI / expert-systems / early-rationalist period. Vinge's 1993 Singularity, MIRI founded 2000, Bostrom and Yudkowsky writing.
Whole Earth Catalog 1968. Long Now from 1996. Long-horizon thinking established before deep learning.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
Strategy positions
Long reflectionendorses
Use post-AGI stability for extended moral deliberation before locking inArgues civilisation needs much-longer time horizons; AI deployment risks collapsing those horizons.
Civilisation is acquiring tools whose effects unfold on civilisational timescales. We are not yet thinking on those timescales.
Closest strategy neighbours
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Nick Bostrom
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Author of Superintelligence; founded Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute
Record last updated 2026-04-25.