MIT
Alex KlokusCo-founder and President · Physical SuperintelligenceFounder↗Both at Physical Superintelligence
Founder · Researcher
Alex Wissner-Gross
Physical SuperintelligenceFounder and Chief Scientist
Wissner-Gross explores how intelligence might arise from physical principles. In their 2013 paper Causal Entropic Forces, he and Cameron Freer proposed that seemingly intelligent behaviour can emerge when a system acts to preserve as many future options as possible.
Career & education
Current rolePhysical SuperintelligenceSep 2025-presentFounder and Chief Scientist
Physical SuperintelligenceSep 2025-presentPreviously
Harvard University2012-2021Institute Fellow and Associate, Institute for Applied Computational Science
Harvard University2012-2021Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations1,169As of Oct 19, '26
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