About the Author
Eric Drexler is a Senior Research Fellow at RAND Europe, focusing on the geopolitical implications of advanced artificial intelligence and transformative technologies. His research integrates technical analysis with strategic policy considerations, examining how emerging AI capabilities could transform software development, manufacturing, and international security arrangements. A former Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute, He authored the technical report “Reframing Superintelligence: Comprehensive AI Services as General Intelligence”, which has contributed to current approaches in advanced AI development and governance. He currently advises both the Centre for the Governance of AI and the Center for AI Risk Management & Alignment.
His research integrates technical analysis with strategic policy considerations, examining how emerging AI capabilities could transform software development, manufacturing, and international security arrangements. Through his publications, Drexler has developed frameworks for structured transparency and cooperative security to help manage transformative technological change. This systems-level approach builds on his earlier work in molecular systems engineering, beginning with his 1981 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The work continued through his MIT doctoral research, published as Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation, and his subsequent role in leading the Battelle Memorial Institute's Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems, a project supported by multiple US National Laboratories. His current work applies these analytical methods to identify practical paths toward stable and beneficial outcomes in a world transformed by artificial intelligence.
Drexler currently resides in Oxford, UK.
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Three books and a technical report: