Alex Platt

I'm currently building Sero to accelerate the development of the AI economy. On the side I run Seven Bridges, a custom alternative data business serving hedge funds. Previously, a managing director and senior research analyst at D.A. Davidson where I focused on frontier AI and compute infrastructure. Studied philosophy and cognitive science at the University of Oregon.

Things I'm passionate about:

The trajectory of human civilization. How we accelerate and evolve as a species in a rapidly changing world. Has led to interests in substrate independence and whether consciousness is tied to biology or something more portable. Along with the idea that given sufficient computational power, an advanced civilization could simulate entire societies indistinguishable from reality.
Investing in humanities. We're severely underweighting the disciplines that study what is uniquely human such as art, literature, philosophy, and psychology. As AI fundamentally reshapes society, these fields become more important, not less. I believe we should be creating a humanities-equivalent of the Arc Institute to incentivize meaningful humanistic work so societies can better absorb rapid technological change.
Make learning cool again. The current education system is one of our country's greatest failures, where we're rewarding credentialism over genuine mastery or the literal love of knowledge that philosophy was named for. We are not educating children at the pace we should be, especially when new tools exist that could fundamentally change how we teach. Reform is hard, but we owe it to future generations to fight for their success.

I love meeting new people, feel free to reach out: alex@platt.kr