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# Ray Kurzweil

## Who he is

**Ray Kurzweil** is a renowned futurist and inventor, author of *The Singularity is Near*, and previously a Director of Engineering at Google. He is mentioned by **Tony Robbins** to lend credibility to the exponential growth curve of AI capability.

## Why the summit invokes him

- Kurzweil is noted for highly accurate predictions regarding the trajectory of technology and the internet.
- The often-cited stat: **86% accuracy on 147 predictions** he made in the 1990s.
- Robbins uses this track record to anchor the rhetorical force of [[claim-ai-equalizer]] — if Kurzweil's exponential framing has been right before, his framing of AI's accelerating capability is worth taking seriously.

## Canonical reference

https://www.kurzweilai.net