Mike McCormick: AI Acceleration vs Risks, Funding Global Resilience, AGI scenarios, U.S. vs China

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Tommy Shaughnessy interviews Mike McCormick about the intersection of AI acceleration and safety, exploring the future of superintelligence and global competition for AGI.

Join Tommy Shaughnessy as he speaks with Mike McCormick, founder of Halcyon, about the urgent intersection of AI acceleration and safety. Mike shares his path from venture capital to launching a hybrid nonprofit–fund model focused on securing advanced AI systems. They dive into mechanistic interpretability, global competition for AGI, and what a safe superintelligence future could look like. Can we build superintelligence safely? How do we balance innovation with existential risk? And what ha...

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Host: Tommy Shaughnessy

Guest: Mike McCormick

Topics covered

• AI acceleration
• safety
• global competition
• AGI
• superintelligence
• existential risk

Keywords

• AI
• safety
• superintelligence
• AGI
• innovation
• existential risk
• venture capital

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Halcyon

Places: U.S., China

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