Jamie Metzl is is one of the world’s leading technology and healthcare futurists and Founder and Chair of the global social movement OneShared.World, a Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council, a faculty member of NextMed Health, and a Singularity University expert. In 2019, he was appointed to the World Health Organization expert advisory committee on human genome editing. A former partner in a global private equity firm, he sits on advisory boards for multiple biotechnology and other companies and helped establish and serves as Special Strategist to the WisdomTree BioRevolution Exchange Traded Fund (ticker: WDNA). His new book, Superconvergence:How the Genetics, Biotech and AI Revolutions Will Transform Our Lives, Work,and World, will be published by Hachette five days from today. Jamie is the author of the bestseller, Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity, and many other books and previously served in the U.S. National Security Council, State Department, and Senate Foreign Relations Committee and with the United Nations in Cambodia. Jamie holds a Ph.D. from Oxford, a law degree from Harvard, and an undergraduate degree from Brown and is an avid ironman triathlete and ultramarathon runner.
The rapid growth of new AI systems like ChatGPT and Google Gemini have helped most people realize significant change is on the horizon. But while most of us still think of these AI capabilities as improved internet search tools, the implications are far more profound. Just like the agricultural, industrial, and computer revolutions before it, the AI revolution will transform almost every aspect of our personal and professional lives. Along with our new capabilities in genetics and biotechnology, it will change how we live and work, our economies, our healthcare, the foods we eat, and our interactions with the world around us. In this visionary and far-reaching but also highly practical talk, leading futurist Jamie Metzl explores the big-picture implications of this transformative moment in our history -- when we humans are rapidly increasing our abilities to engineer intelligence and re-engineer biology -- and how individuals, organizations, and societies can best ride the wave of this change rather than be subsumed by it.