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# Blaise Agüera y Arcas

> Directory entry from Antikythera Wiki (https://antikythera.wiki/people/blaise-aguera-y-arcas), an independent guide to Antikythera's published work. Roles and affiliations as published.

- **Role:** Editorial board; Affiliate researcher 2024; author, Antikythera/MIT Press book series
- **Affiliation:** Google (VP and Fellow; CTO of Technology & Society; Paradigms of Intelligence team)
- **Group:** Editorial board
- **Website:** https://research.google/people/106776/

Vice president and fellow at Google, where he leads a large research organization at the intersection of machine learning and devices (one contribution is Federated Learning) and founded the Paradigms of Intelligence team. He is on the journal's editorial board and an Affiliate Researcher 2024, and his book *What Is Intelligence?* opened the Antikythera book series with MIT Press, followed by *What Is Life?*. In the corpus he also has the *What Is Intelligence?* article-film, the Substack post *The Silicon Interior*, and Noema essays co-written with Bratton (*The Model Is the Message*), Peter Norvig (*Artificial General Intelligence Is Already Here*) and James Manyika.

## In the corpus

- [Agentic AI and the next intelligence explosion](https://antikythera.wiki/work/media/science-agentic-ai-and-the-next-intelligence-explosion) (2026-03-19)
- [The Silicon Interior](https://antikythera.wiki/work/substack/2026-02-10-the-silicon-interior) (2026-02-10)
- [What Is Intelligence?](https://antikythera.wiki/work/book/what-is-intelligence) (2025-09-23)
- [What is Intelligence? (Lecture)](https://antikythera.wiki/work/journal/wii-film) (2025-05-10)
- [AI Is Evolving — And Changing Our Understanding Of Intelligence](https://antikythera.wiki/work/media/noema-ai-is-evolving-and-changing-our-understanding-of-intelligence) (2025-04-08)
- [Artificial General Intelligence Is Already Here](https://antikythera.wiki/work/media/noema-artificial-general-intelligence-is-already-here) (2023-10-10)
- [The Model Is The Message](https://antikythera.wiki/work/media/noema-the-model-is-the-message) (2022-07-12)

_Directory generated 2026-09-06._