2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American science fiction author known for long, densely researched novels about technology, cryptography, and civilization — whose Snow Crash coined the term 'metaverse' and whose work influences Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.
Leopold Aschenbrenner's 2024 long-form essay arguing that AGI is coming by 2027–2030, that OpenAI and other labs lack adequate security measures against Chinese espionage, and that the AI race represents the defining geopolitical competition of the next decade.