John-Clark Levin is Research Lead at Kurzweil Technologies, where he conducts foresight on the roadmap to artificial superintelligence, with a particular focus on applications to the life sciences. His work was featured in Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Nearer, a New York Times bestseller. He also serves as Senior Advisor for AI at Greenmantle, Sir Niall Ferguson's macrostrategy advisory firm, and regularly advises governments, NGOs, and Fortune 500 corporations on the technical and policy dimensions of AI. Over the past decade, he has studied AI and its impacts at Harvard and Cambridge, and has lectured at institutions including the U.S. Naval War College, RAND, and the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. His commentary has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, TIME Magazine, and MIT Technology Review.