Thomas Moynihan

UK-based historian of ideas and writer; visiting research associate at St Benet's, Oxford, formerly with the Future of Humanity Institute and a visiting researcher at Cambridge's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. His work traces how people came to grasp humanity's potential and fragility. An Affiliate Researcher 2024, he wrote Planetary Sapience & Planetary Stupidity: a Bildungsroman for the Baby Noosphere and The History of Now (with Informationart and Clinton Van Arnam), spoke at the Planetary Sapience Symposium, and is the author of the Noema essays Don't Denigrate the Dinosaurs, Untangling Religion From Our AI Debates and Are We Accidentally Building a Planetary Brain?.