Amir Konigsberg, Ph.D.

Hi, i’m Amir. I'm a technology founder, executive, and professor of AI and entrepreneurship. I also advise, invest, and coach. What connects all of this is a curiosity about how people think, what we're capable of, what we need, and what helps us flourish. I'm still figuring some of that out for myself, too.

Much of my work in technology has been about creating, collecting, organizing, and making information accessible. And, just as importantly, helping people make sense of it, decide what to trust, and act on it. I've built companies and products in areas ranging from search and natural language systems, AI infrastructure, autonomous mobility, decision-making systems, and neuromodulation. I've also worked on problems involving national security, information pollution, and adversarial manipulation.

I think that what interests me most is how technology can give people greater agency and help them do things they couldn't before. I'm equally interested in understanding how it can go wrong, and what we can do to prevent that.

I like big ideas, especially ones that tackle meaningful problems at the right moment and have the potential to fundamentally change how things are done.

I enjoy building things, challenging assumptions, and working with interesting, highly capable people who care about what they do. Few things give me more satisfaction than helping others grow and succeed.

I tend to prefer action to inaction. Though lately I've also been trying to learn the value of stillness. It's a work in progress …

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