# Ramez Naam
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ramez naam is an American technologist and science fiction writer. He is best known as the author of the Nexus Trilogy. His other books include The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet and More than Human: Embracing the Promises of Biological Enhancement.
Ramez Naam on AI as a Tool of Liberty
Ramez Naam, investor and award-winning author, explores an alternative to the fear that AI will concentrate power and fuel authoritarianism. One where open-source, plural AI boosts human freedom and empowers democracy.
Recorded at the Open Source AI Summit, held September 10–11, 2026, in San Franci…
Ramez Naam: Plural AI as a Freedom Technology
Ramez Naam examines how widely available AI could support individual liberty, drawing comparisons with earlier information technologies. He discusses competition among AI models, open weights, safety and security, and the challenges facing the open source AI community.
Recorded during Day 1 of Free…
The AI state of play: My interview with Ramez Naam
My guest this episode is Ramez Naam. Ramez has spent years thinking, writing, and investing around technological progress in energy and artificial intelligence. He is the founder and managing partner of Planetary VC, where he invests in emerging technologies across areas including clean energy, ele…
The Lab Data Proves the Intelligence Explosion Is a Myth | Ramez Naam
Investor and computer scientist Ramez Naam argues that recursive self-improvement and AI intelligence explosions face steep diminishing returns based on data from OpenAI and Anthropic system cards. He explains why current feedback loops are too weak to sustain runaway growth and outlines where AI s…
Ramez Naam: a solar future against AI-doomerism
Today, Ramez Naam returns 5 years after his original appearance on the podcast. In 2003, he wrote More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement. Naam is also the author of three science fiction books: Crux, Apex, and Nexus. In addition, has also written The Infinite Resourc…
A faster way to get to a clean energy future | Ramez Naam
When it comes to cost, clean energy is bound to beat out fossil fuels, says technologist Ramez Naam. But the hesitancy to build amid the prevalence of "not in my backyard" campaigns is preventing the creation of our sustainable future. Naam outlines the changes we need to make to get out of our own…
A faster way to get to a clean energy future | Ramez Naam
When it comes to cost, clean energy is bound to beat out fossil fuels, says technologist Ramez Naam. But the hesitancy to build amid the prevalence of "not in my backyard" campaigns is preventing the creation of our sustainable future. Naam outlines the changes we need to make to get out of our own…
AI in Space, Dreaming Machines & Human Control | Suncatcher, Claude and Agent Swarms
What happens when AI leaves the chatbot window and starts acting in the physical world?
Dylan Curious explores Google’s Project Suncatcher, the challenge of cooling AI hardware in orbit, and a reported experiment involving an AI agent and mouse-brain surgery. A satirical superintelligence challeng…
Nov 10: Claude Fable 5.2 Takes the Lead; Trump's AI Jail Threat
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2, which now tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index but costs much more per task at maximum effort. Also: Trump says his Justice Department threatened an AI company leader with jail, the New York Times reports that Nvidia's top lawyer contacted export inve…
Why Recursive Self-Improvement Hits a Wall | Ramez Naam
Planetary VC investor Ramez Naam pushes back on runaway recursive self-improvement models and short AGI timelines, arguing that empirical lab data shows steep diminishing returns rather than exponential feedback loops. He compares theoretical benchmarks to real-world task horizons at OpenAI and Ant…
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