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# James Evans

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

- **Role:** Science co-author with Bratton and Agüera y Arcas
- **Affiliation:** University of Chicago; Santa Fe Institute; Google Paradigms of Intelligence team
- **Group:** Contributors

Sociologist of science and computation at the University of Chicago (Knowledge Lab), external professor at the Santa Fe Institute, and a member of Google's Paradigms of Intelligence team. In the corpus he is first author of the Science piece *Agentic AI and the Next Intelligence Explosion* (2026) with Bratton and Agüera y Arcas, which recasts the singularity as plural, social, and institutional. No direct Antikythera role is documented.

## 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)

_Directory generated 2026-09-06._