Rodney Malpert

Law, philosophy, chess—and a new way of pursuing difficult questions.

Rodney Malpert holds a J.D. and M.A. from Cornell University. He completed all Ph.D. requirements in Government except the dissertation and undertook substantial graduate coursework in analytic philosophy.

He practiced law for many years in Silicon Valley and taught law as an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University and Arizona State University. He achieved the rank of Senior Master with the U.S. Chess Federation.

The current project

The Centaur Papers apply sustained human–AI collaboration to questions spanning AI risk, recursive self-improvement, consciousness, metaphysics, historical attribution, and forecasting. The collection emphasizes explicit reasoning, sensitivity to assumptions, and a willingness to revise.

Human direction and AI research are documented within individual papers. The project invites readers to engage with the arguments on their merits.