Amir Konigsberg, Ph.D.

I’ve spent my career moving across and between technology, entrepreneurship, and research, driven by a fascination with how people think and what technology can enable them to do.

I became interested in cognitive science and artificial intelligence early, initially as a way of understanding the intricacies of the mind, particularly how we reason, misperceive, construct meaning, and make decisions. That interest eventually became both academic and entrepreneurial.

As a founder and executive, I have mostly worked on products and companies built around what were, at the time, frontier technologies (such as semantic search, generative systems, and vehicle autonomy). Much of that work has focused on making information easier to find, organize, understand, and act upon. Whether modeling driver cognitive states and designing advanced human-machine interfaces for autonomous systems, or building natural language platforms, my work has been driven by a core philosophy of using technology to augment and protect human judgment and agency rather than simply replace human effort.

Over the last few years i’ve been thinking a lot about a hybrid AI-human future and the integrity, trustworthiness, and safety of multi-agent environments.

I’m energized by people, problems, and new ideas. I’m drawn to areas that are conceptually unclear or completely crazy and where progress depends on moving between first-principles thinking and practical execution.

Previously Founder/Exec at Twiggle, Hour One, XPOZ, mySupermarket, SONA, IBT, CodeScan. Earlier on: product, research, and business at Google and General Motors. Currently independent investor, advisor, and researcher, and AI and Ethics Fellow at Oxford University. More → About.