Peter received his master’s degree in Computer Science from Cambridge University, he’s delivered a TEDx talk and has worked for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for over thirty years, helping advance our exploration of the Solar System. Peter is the author of Crisis of Control: How Artificial SuperIntelligences May Destroy or Save the Human Race. A pioneering book about the existential crises facing humanity.
He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and two daughters and writes the Human Cusp blog on dealing with exponential change.
I came across Peter during one of his talks in London, and reached out for a conversation about how we can ratify our thinking about an uncertain future that is merged with machines.
We had a wide ranging talk that covered Narrow, General and Super Intelligent AI, Consciousness, Human-machine augmentation and the dangers of AI and the dangers of a human power processing and wielding advanced AI.