What Salim Ismail has said about Artificial general intelligence
2 quotes · 2 episodes · Sep 11, 2026 – Sep 22, 2026
Salim Ismail, Founder of OpenExO and author on exponential organizations, co-host of Moonshots, has been quoted on Artificial general intelligence 2 times in 2 episodes of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, most recently on September 22, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Ismail says roughly fifty major global institutions must be rebuilt for a positive AI future, and that his P(FAB) is close to 100% if that happens.
“There's about 50 major institutions by which we run the world. They pretty much all need this”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Ask the Mates Anything Round #2 | MOONSHOTS AMA #293 (Sep 22, 2026) · Listen from 1:05:40
Ismail says narrowly focused PhD and master's candidates are effectively obsolete given current model capabilities.
“it means every PhD candidate and everybody studying a master's degree and a PhD in the world on a particular very narrow topic is essentially toast, cooked”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Should we slow down AI progress? | MOONSHOTS #288 (Sep 11, 2026) · Listen from 1:07:01
Episodes
Ask the Mates Anything Round #2 | MOONSHOTS AMA #293Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Sep 22, 2026 · 1 h 27 min
Diamandis, Blundin, Wissner-Gross and Ismail answer audience questions on AI safety, universities, robotics, longevity, Europe and abundance.
Should we slow down AI progress? | MOONSHOTS #288Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Sep 11, 2026 · 2 h 44 min
The Moonshots panel and Emad Mostaque debate AI safety resignations, P(doom), the Navier-Stokes solution, data as moat, GPU economics and AI-designed longevity drugs.
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- Joe Rogan · 2 quotes
- Connor Leahy · 1 quote
- Jensen Huang · 1 quote
- Duncan Trussell · 1 quote
- Alexander Wissner-Gross · 1 quote
- Emad Mostaque · 1 quote
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