I’m interested in how diplomacy must evolve to unlock currently inaccessible pathways for mitigating existential risks to humanity from artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, and atomic warfare. Of particular interest are the underdeveloped relationships between Western technoindustrialist leaders and Chinese political leaders as a complement or alternative to coordination between Washington and Beijing locked in Cold War II.

I’m also excited by the potential to 1) expedite the process of making humans a multiplanetary species by removing barriers to more productive SpaceX-China co-opetition, and 2) use AI to solve our long-term carbon problem through a combination of design/production of sustainable synthetic drop-in fossil substitutes and climate systems engineering.

jandrewferguson@protonmail.com