Seven weeks before ChatGPT launched, David Wood sat down with me for two hours to make a case few wanted to hear: we are losing control of our technology.

That was October 2022. #AIAlignment was still a niche concern. Now it’s dinner table conversation.

David co-founded Symbian and helped put smartphones into billions of pockets. Then he spent years asking a harder question: what happens when our power grows faster than our wisdom? The Singularity Principles is his attempt at an answer.

We went places I didn’t expect. Why the proactionary principle falls short. What “Demi Moore’s Law” is (yes, really). And what he sees as the single greatest danger to humanity, which is not the one most people would guess.

He also gave me the cleanest definition of the #Singularity I have heard: the profound change in the human condition triggered by the advent of greater-than-human intelligence.

Rewatching it four years later, a couple of his warnings land very differently. One of them made me uncomfortable.

And then there’s Christopher Columbus. David thinks his voyage tells us something important about where #ArtificialIntelligence is taking us. I’ll let him explain why.

So here’s the question worth sitting with: is that profound change still ahead of us, or are we already living inside it?

Watch or listen to the full conversation with David Wood here: [ https://snglrty.co/3XtNSLd](https://snglrty.co/3XtNSLd)

The Singularity Principles is a unique, comprehensive, and principled framework for riding the tsunami of change, instead of drowning in it.