Alvin W. Graylin

Digital Fellows • Seminar Speakers
The technology for an abundant utopia will soon exist; it is our mindset of scarcity and competition that stands in the way.
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Chairman, Virtual World Society | Lecturer, MIT

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Graylin serves as a Digital Fellow at Stanford DEL and a Sr. Fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute. He received his BS in EE from University of Washington, his SM from MIT in EE/CS and SM in Business from MIT Sloan. He is a global tech strategist and co-author of Our Next Reality.

With 35+ years between U.S. and China, spanning AI, semiconductors, immersive computing, and cybersecurity, he held senior roles at HTC, Intel, IBM, and Trend Micro; founded four venture-backed startups (conversational AI, AR, social media); and invested in 100+ early-stage firms.

He advises governments, multilateral bodies, and Fortune 100 leaders on AI policy, global governance, and the post-AGI socioeconomic transition. Drawing on deep tech industry operating experience, he speaks globally on bilateral cooperation, geopolitical risk, abundance-oriented economic models, and AI that boosts human prosperity and global stability.

TED Talk, 2025: “3 possible futures for AI — which will we choose?“

Beyond Rivalry: A US-China Policy Framework for the Age of Transformative AI

Many observers fear that the pursuit of transformative AI or artificial general intelligence (AGI) presents a challenge to the existing global order. Their worry is that the US and China, the two global leaders in AI, are now locked in a destructive race to build the most capable version of the technology, which could lead to unintended consequences and global instability.

But in his essay for The Digitalist Papers, Alvin W. Graylin explores an alternative path for the US and China, one where these countries go “beyond rivalry,” and sets out how this more hopeful, cooperative outcome might be achieved.

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Past Events
Monday, April 21, 2025

Alvin Graylin: The Realities of the U.S.-China AI Arms Race

  • Economics of transformative ai