Amir Konigsberg is an AI executive, entrepreneur and researcher with more than two decades of experience building companies, businesses, products and teams around emerging technologies.
He has served as a founder and CEO, President and Chair, and held senior roles at Google and General Motors. Across these positions, his work has spanned general management, business and corporate strategy, product direction, commercialization, partnerships, organizational development, fundraising and research.
Much of his career has been spent at moments when emerging technologies were becoming businesses. At Google, this meant the expansion of search and the commercial internet. At General Motors, AI and autonomous systems. At Twiggle, machine learning and natural-language understanding. At CodeScan, dynamic code analysis and software intelligence. At Hour One, generative AI. At SONA, closed-loop nervous system regulation.
The common thread has been turning emerging capabilities into products, businesses and organizations: understanding where a technology is going, identifying where strategic and economic value will emerge, and building what is required to capture it.
Alongside his operating work, Amir is an active researcher in artificial intelligence, human–AI interaction and AI evaluation, an Adjunct Professor at Tel Aviv University, and a Fellow at the University of Oxford. His current work focuses on AI risks, adversarial AI, AI evaluation, human agency and judgment in AI-assisted cognition, epistemic integrity, and the behavior and governance of increasingly autonomous systems. About →
Career
Strategy & Emerging Markets
Worked during Google's early international expansion across strategy, market development, product adoption and commercialization, contributing to initiatives around products including Google Trends, Google Analytics and AdWords Editor.
mySupermarket
Business and Growth Leadership
Helped build and scale one of the UK's early online grocery and comparison platforms, working across business development, commercial strategy, partnerships, product and growth.
General Motors
Artificial Intelligence & Autonomous Systems
Worked as a senior scientist in AI and human–machine interaction at General Motors R&D, combining artificial intelligence, cognitive science and product-oriented research in the development of intelligent and adaptive vehicle systems.
Twiggle
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-founded and led an enterprise AI company applying machine learning, natural-language understanding and knowledge representation to search and product discovery. Built the company from inception, with responsibility across strategy, product, fundraising, commercial development, organization building and international expansion, including a multidisciplinary R&D organization of more than 90 people.
CodeScan
Dynamic Code Analysis
Built around advances in dynamic code analysis and software intelligence, applying machine reasoning to the understanding of complex software systems.
Hour One
President
Helped build and scale one of the early generative-AI video companies, working across company strategy, business development, partnerships, fundraising, go-to-market and corporate development through the emergence of generative AI as a commercial category.
XPOZ
President
Led strategy, product direction and commercialization for an AI-native social intelligence company developing large-scale intelligence infrastructure for enterprises and AI systems.
SONA
Chair
Chair of an AI-enabled neurotechnology company developing closed-loop nervous system regulation. Works with the leadership team on strategy, product direction, organizational development, financing and scale.
Aletheia
Founder
I founded Aletheia as a platform for research and strategic work around agentic AI.
Our work focuses on AI integrity, adversarial AI, AI evaluation, epistemic risk, resilience and governance, including work in areas of national security, with government organizations and leading AI labs. Client engagements across national security, government organizations and leading AI labs, addressing the strategic, operational and governance challenges created by increasingly capable and autonomous AI systems.
Research & academic affiliations
My research examines the behavior and evaluation of advanced AI systems and the changing relationship between human and machine intelligence. I am particularly interested in AI risk and adversarial behavior; how the reasoning, reliability and epistemic properties of AI systems should be evaluated; and what happens to human understanding, judgment and agency when significant cognitive work is delegated to machines. Research →
I am a Fellow at the University of Oxford AI and Ethics institute and an Adjunct Professor at Tel Aviv University.
Academic background
Amir holds a PhD in Rationality and Interactive Decision Making from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Master's degree in Cognitive Science.
His academic work has also included a PhD Fellowship in Cognitive Psychology at Princeton University, research at the Max Planck Institute, and a Fulbright Scholarship.
Inventions
I am an inventor on 18 U.S. patents spanning artificial intelligence, search, natural-language understanding, human–machine interaction, decision support, behavioral modeling and intelligent systems.
The inventions emerged from work across automotive systems, search and commerce, mobile computing and adaptive technologies. Inventions →
Personal
Outside work, I am happiest outside, somewhere between the desert and the sea.
I love long walks, camping and hiking, olive trees, old places, and landscapes that feel removed from ordinary life. The Peloponnese is a favorite destination, as is Sinai. About →
CV
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