Sean Gourley (@sgourley) is a physicist, founder and CEO of AI company, Primer, an expert on the mathematics of war, TED Fellow, speaker and political advisor.Before that, he was CTO and co-founder of Quid, an augmented-intelligence company and also worked on self-repairing nano-circuits at NASA. Sean was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford focused on complex systems and the mathematical patterns underlying modern war which was published on the cover of Nature.He has served as a political advisor, briefed USCENTCOM at the Pentagon and addressed the United Nations in Vienna, serves on the Board of Directors at Anadarko (NYSE:APC).Sean is also a two-time New Zealand track and field champion and sits on the Knight Commission focused on reforming collegiate athletics.In today’s episode we discuss: The future of the US-China relationship, and possible war What differentiates AI creativity from humans The automation law that ALWAYS leads to occasional epic consequences Should we develop autonomous weapons? Will we What are the biggest predictors of war and civil strife Why San Francisco is anything but a model city Are cyborgs and genetic superhumans inevitable How long until we have human-level AI Why economic war creates the conditions for actual fighting What works well with mutually assured destruction How to engineer equality into our economy Why Sean is worried about deep fakes breaking democracy How to think about dynamic geopolitical decisions The importance of education and what its future holds