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Nine thematic syntheses of Maynard’s thinking on risk, AI and AI risk (first-stage map).
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| File | Words | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| T1. What risk is, for Andrew Maynard | 6,967 | Thread. Risk as a threat to value (not only to health or environment); hazard versus risk; risk innovation; the “risk landscape”; risk thinking as the opposite of fear-mongering; orphan risks as one expression among… |
| T2. Learning from past technologies: reference cases, precaution, permissionless innovation and responsible innovation | 6,802 | A thematic synthesis of Andrew Maynard’s thinking, 2014 to September 2026. |
| T3. The AI risk landscape: which AI risks Andrew Maynard sees, how he weighs them, and what he takes AI to be | 6,779 | A thematic synthesis of one thread in Andrew Maynard’s public writing, 2015 to September 2026. It maps his own thinking and does not compare it with anything else. |
| T4. Cognition, language and human formation | 6,650 | A thematic synthesis of one thread in Andrew Maynard’s public writing, 2016 to September 2026. It covers: - what AI does to how people think, learn and come to know things; - how talking with machines shapes people… |
| T5. Governance, institutions and who decides | 7,162 | A thematic synthesis of Andrew Maynard’s thinking on how emerging technologies, AI above all, should be governed and by whom. It covers industry’s limits, expertise beyond the technical, public engagement, regulation… |
| T6. Technology transitions, complexity and futures | 6,538 | A thematic synthesis of Andrew Maynard’s thinking, 2015 to September 2026, on: - advanced technology transitions and his frameworks for them; - convergence; - exponential extrapolation, the singularity and… |
| T7. Responsibility, ethics and the people behind technology | 7,006 | Andrew Maynard on hubris, “could vs should”, myopically benevolent science, technologies of hubris, the honest broker, founders and tech leaders, inequality and justice, and the status quo (2014 to September 2026) |
| T8. How he thinks: epistemic stance and method | 7,020 | A thematic synthesis of Andrew Maynard’s public writing, 2014 to September 2026, on one thread: how he reasons, what he counts as evidence, how he handles uncertainty and his own errors, how he uses stories and… |
| T9. Evolution and tensions: how Andrew Maynard’s thinking changed from 2014 to 2026, what held, and what is still unresolved | 6,586 | A thematic synthesis for the map of Andrew Maynard’s thinking. It draws on the batch digests and notes (notes/B01–B32), the chapter notes on Films from the Future (FFTF, 2018), concept-index.md and timeline.md, and a… |