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

AI Trust Architecture
Quantum Computing
Brain Computer Interface
Alzheimer's Research
Fusion Energy
Cyber Security

Interviews & Contributions

Business Insider

Mundie talks to Business Insider about what makes modern AI fundamentally different from traditional computing, why today’s systems can feel “intelligent,” and what that means for trust. Mundie says governance is now the central challenge: Countries may either converge on shared “architectures of trust" for AI or drift toward a more fragmented world where systems are walled off. He suggests that, ultimately, AI may be required to help govern itself.

Starling Insights
As a contributor to the 2025 compendium from Starling, Mundie brings his perspective on trust and warns of thinking too narrowly when engaging in the issues of AI.

Council on Foreign Relations

“Strategic competition over the world’s next generation of foundational technologies is underway, and U.S. advantages in artificial intelligence, quantum, and biotechnology are increasingly contested,” asserts a new Task Force report sponsored by the @Council on Foreign Relations.

Read the Task Force recommendations in a new report

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”