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D. Scott Phoenix
D. Scott Phoenix is a deep tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist who co-founded Vicarious, an artificial general intelligence company that raised $250M from Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and other tech luminaries before being acquired by Alphabet in 2022. Now a partner at Fifty Years, he invests in scientists and engineers solving humanity's biggest problems. A Y Combinator alum who founded his first startup at 16, Phoenix is a leading voice in AI safety advocacy and believes artificial general intelligence will be 'humanity's last invention.'
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