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# Thomas Moynihan

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

- **Role:** Affiliate researcher 2024; journal author (Vol. 2025)
- **Affiliation:** University of Oxford (St Benet's); Cambridge CSER
- **Group:** Affiliate researchers
- **Website:** https://thomasmoynihan.xyz/

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?*.

## In the corpus

- [Planetary Sapience & Planetary Stupidity: a Bildungsroman for the Baby Noosphere](https://antikythera.wiki/work/journal/babynoosphere) (2025-05-10)
- [The History of Now](https://antikythera.wiki/work/journal/historyofnow) (2025-05-10)
- [Are We Accidentally Building A Planetary Brain?](https://antikythera.wiki/work/media/noema-are-we-accidentally-building-a-planetary-brain) (2024-11-19)
- [Untangling Religion From Our AI Debates](https://antikythera.wiki/work/media/noema-untangling-religion-from-our-ai-debates) (2024-02-27)
- [Don’t Denigrate The Dinosaurs](https://antikythera.wiki/work/media/noema-dont-denigrate-the-dinosaurs) (2023-08-10)

_Directory generated 2026-09-06._