The Benevolent AI Future team, with expertise spanning AI, venture capital, founding ventures, philanthropy, and beyond, is dedicated to identifying precise challenges and use cases—primarily anchored around the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—where AI can effect significant change.
Coalition
Driven by visionary leaders in
Tech, Academia, Science, Government, and AI
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Bradley Horowitz
Investor of
Wisdom Ventures -
Navrina Singh
Founder & CEO of
Credo.AI -
Richard Socher
Founder & CEO of
You.com -
Evan Sharp
Founder & Board Member
of Pinterest -
Jack Kornfield
Founding Teacher of
Spirit Rock -
Barry Kerzin
Founder of Altruism in Medicine Institute (AIMI)
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Jeff Walker
Vice Chairman of UN Secretary General's Envoy for Health Finance
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Victor Koo
Founder & Chaiman of
Youku -
Elliott Donnelley
Board Chair of
TPW -
Diego Saez-Gil
Founder/CEO of
Pachama -
Robert Nishihara
CEO of
Anyscale -
Mark Johnson
CTO of Stand Together
Ventures Lab -
Greg Tanaka
City Council Member of Palo Alto & Founder/CEO
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Kevin Hawkins
NYSE Regional Head,
Capital Markets -
Brian Baumann
Director of Capital Markets, Technology of NYSE
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Panos Madamopoulos
Managing Director @ Stanford HAI
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Peter Leyden
Founder & Thought Leader of Reinvent Futures
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Dacher Keltner
Founding Director of
UC Berkeley -
Lei Du
Co-founder of
Huma -
Xue Mei Devand
Founder of
The Space Between
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Ted Nyman
Founder/CEO of Cased
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Freeman Wong
Cofounder & COO of Aomni
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Beth DesMarais
Founder of Human
Evolution Media -
Francesco Cianella
Senior Product Manager, Conversational AI @ NVIDIA
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Anand Sampat
Senior Director, Machine Learning of SambaNova Systems
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Hitesh Kalra
VP of Engineering of
Ping Identity -
Kirill Kireyev
Chief Technology Officer of
Gyant -
Kathryn Lukas-Damer
Founder & CEO of
Hearth Matters -
Ali Tore
President of The
Public Health Company -
Nipun Mehta
Founder of
ServiceSpace AI -
Andy Lam
General Partner at
Uprising Ventures -
Adam Goldstein
Founder of Astonishing Labs
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Justin Rosenstein
Founder & Board Member of Asana
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Ben Goertzel
Chairman of Artificial General Intelligence Society
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Julia Mossbridge
Founder & Board Member of Institute for Love and Time
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Claudia Welss
Chairwoman & Interim CEO
of IONS -
Nicco Reggente
Co-founder of Cognitive Neurscientist Institute
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Erin Rech
Former SVP of
iHeartMedia -
Ram Sriharsha
VP of Engineering & R&D
of Pinecone -
Kerim Baran
Founder & CEO of
Enki Solar
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Yury Kapgan
Partner of
Quinn Emanuel -
Dennis Hunter
Founder & Chairman of Ygrene Energy Fund
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Tabreez Verjee
Partner of
Uprising Ventures -
Stephen Dinan
Founder & CEO of The Shift Network
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Olga Serhiyevich
Head of IR of
Village Global
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Bruce Damer
Founder & CEO of
BIOTA Institute -
Terry Kramer
Director of UCLA Easton Center
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Nikki Mirghafori
AI Researcher (Compassion); Buddhist Teacher
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Patricia Klauer
Co-Founder of
Future Capital -
Arnaud Delorme
Researcher & Scientist
at IONS -
Trudy Goodman
Founder of
Insight LA -
Nell Watson
Ethics Scientist @ IEEE
Standards Association -
Kristofer Doerfler
Co-Leader of
Future Capital
Partners
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Rocky Yu
Founder of the
AGI House -
John Whaley
Founder & CEO of
Inception Studio -
Greg Galle
Founder of
Solve Next -
Soren Gordhamer
Founder & CEO of Venture Partner & Wisdom Ventures / Wisdom 2.0
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Mikey Siegel
Co-founder of Awakened Futures Summit, Lecturer @ Stanford
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Miles Laester
Founder of Purpose Built
Co-Founders/ Board Members
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Kwiri Yang
Founder & CEO of Second Time Founders
Founder & Executive Director -
Bo Shao
Founder & Chairman of
Evolve Ventures
Founder & Co-Chair -
Stacey Lawson
Executive Vice Chairman
of Ygrene Energy Fund
Founder & Co-Chair -
Arun Rao
AI & ML Group Product Manager
of Meta
Founder & Vice Chair -
Lake Dai
Founder & Managing Partner of Sancus Ventures | Professor of CMU
Founder & Vice Chair
Operations Team
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Katrina Kuo
Design (AI + UX) @
Stanford University
B.AI Operations Manager
Sponsors
DesignThinking Sponsorship
Companies & Funds
