{"id":244755,"date":"2026-10-01T11:05:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/david-wood-on-the-singularity-principles"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:05:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:05:50","slug":"david-wood-on-the-singularity-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/david-wood-on-the-singularity-principles","title":{"rendered":"David Wood on the Singularity Principles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/david-wood-on-the-singularity-principles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><audio controls style=\"width:625px;\"><source src=\"https:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/1358822845-singularity1on1-david-wood-singularity-principles.mp3?_=1\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>That was October 2022. #AIAlignment was still a niche concern. Now it\u2019s dinner table conversation.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>We went places I didn\u2019t expect. Why the proactionary principle falls short. What \u201cDemi Moore\u2019s Law\u201d is (yes, really). And what he sees as the single greatest danger to humanity, which is not the one most people would guess.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Rewatching it four years later, a couple of his warnings land very differently. One of them made me uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/david-wood-on-the-singularity-principles\">Continue reading \u201cDavid Wood on the Singularity Principles\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s dinner table conversation. David co-founded Symbian and helped put smartphones into billions of pockets. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}