Explore Craig Mundie’s latest conversations, writings, and timeless insights on the future of technology and society.
“Without real-time, scalable, and neutral governance structures, we are not just amplifying existing harm — we are accelerating the collapse of democratic legitimacy. “
- Craig Mundie, 2025 Starling Trust Compendium
Strategic Focus
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AI Trust Architecture
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Quantum Computing
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Brain Computer Interface
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Alzheimer's Research
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Fusion Energy
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Cyber Security
Interviews
Starling Insights
As a contributor to this year’s compendium from Starling, Mundie brings his perspective on trust and warns of thinking too narrowly when engaging in the issues of AI.
Op-Eds
Thomas Friedman,
New York Times
Podcasts
Craig Mundie sits down with Dan Faggella on The Trajectory’s AGI Governance series, Mundie is the former Chief Research and Strategy Officer at Microsoft and longtime advisor on the evolution of digital infrastructure, AI, and national security. Over decades of experience building systems at scale, Craig has developed a view of AGI governance grounded not in abstract idealism, but in hard-won realism about how industries and governments actually function.
Artificial intelligence isn’t just another invention — it may be humanity’s first non-biological species. Craig Mundie, former Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer and co-author of Genesis with Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt, explores what happens as AI begins to make decisions once made by humans.
Who decides what AI should do? Who makes it obey? And what if it doesn’t?
The stakes? Nothing less than the future of human civilization.
AI Will Transform the World—But Who Decides How? — 3 Takeaways
Genesis: The Book Tour
Planet Word presents Craig Mundie, in conversation with New York Times Foreign Affairs Columnist Thomas L. Friedman about Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
London Times Radio
Craig Mundie tells Hugo Rifkind using AI correctly could “change the course of human evolution”.
Craig Mundie and Eric Schmidt talk with David Rubenstein about the promise, and potential peril, of a new frontier in artificial intelligence — and their collaboration with the late Henry Kissinger on his final book, Genesis. Recorded at The 92nd Street Y, New York.
Craig Mundie and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, in conversation about charting a course between blind faith and unjustified fear while navigating the age of AI. Hosted by the Commonwealth Club.
Selected Keynotes and Panels
2024 American Association of Neruological Surgeons Annual Meeting Keynote.
“Neurosurgery: Operating at the Boundary Between Two Future Intelligences”
WAIC 2025 Shanghai
Forum on “Global Development and Governance of Artificial Intelligence: A Path Towards Win-Win Cooperation and Joint Governance”
Moderated by Xue Lan, the dialogue featured Craig Mundie, and Cui Tiankai, former Chinese Ambassador to the United States.
The Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit 2019 - Keynote
Davos Annual Meeting 2010
From the archives:
Selected articles and photographs
President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology - Courtesy of the White House
Craig Mundie, second from left, worked with Chairman Bill Gates to develop Microsoft’s strategy on global policy issues. Ray Ozzie and Steve Ballmer joined them when Gates announced he would devote more time to the Gates Foundation. Courtesy of The Seattle Times
Microsoft AI Blog in 2011: Craig Mundie – Converging Worlds: A New Era in Computing
A World Health Organization for Cyber Defense - Washington Post
In 2007, Mundie said the technology industry is looking at a major change in the next three to five years: the arrival of microprocessors with the potential to make everything from laptops to smart phones 50 to 100 times more powerful.
Craig Mundie and Eric Schmidt - Genesis Book Tour 2024