
Oren Etzioni
Incubator
Dr. Oren Etzioni was Chief Executive Officer at AI2 from its inception until Sept. 30th, 2022. He now serves as an advisor & board member for AI2, and a technical director of the AI2 Incubator. He is Professor Emeritus, University of Washington as of October 2020 and a Venture Partner at the Madrona Venture Group since 2000. His awards include AAAI Fellow and Seattle’s Geek of the Year. He has founded several companies including Farecast (acquired by Microsoft). He has written over 200 technical papers, as well as commentary on AI for The New York Times, Wired, and Nature. He helped to pioneer meta-search, online comparison shopping, machine reading, and Open Information Extraction.
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AI’s progress isn’t the same as creating human intelligence in machines
MIT Technology Review • June 28, 2022AI Can Help Scientists Find a Covid-19 Vaccine
Wired • March 28, 2020How to know if artificial intelligence is about to destroy civilization
MIT Tech Review • February 20, 2020High-Stakes AI Decisions Need to Be Automatically Audited
Wired • July 18, 2019We have the basis for an international AI treaty
The Hill • July 17, 2019How Will We Prevent AI-Based Forgery?
Harvard Business Review • March 1, 2019What Trump's Executive Order on AI is Missing
Wired • February 13, 2019Should AI Technology Be Regulated?: Yes, and Here's How
CACM • December 1, 2018Which Country Is Winning the AI Race—the U.S. or China?
The Wall Street Journal • November 12, 2018Countries around the world are developing national strategies for AI – is it time for a US strategy, and what would that look like?
NPR Southern California (KPCC) - AirTalk • August 29, 2018The Enterprise Journey to Artificial General Intelligence
The Wall Street Journal • August 22, 2018Why Stereo Systems Won’t Turn into the Death Star
CTech • June 21, 2018Make Way For Machine Learning: How Seattle is Becoming a Major Hub for Artificial Intelligence
Seattle Business • April 9, 2018AI savants, recognizing bias, and building machines that think like people
MIT Technology Review • March 26, 2018Artificial Intelligence: What Educators Need to Know
Education Week • January 10, 2018Etzioni on A.I. Hype, Reality, Lifesaving Potential, and More
Xconomy • November 2, 2017These A.I. experts aren't too worried about superhuman computers ruining our lives
KUOW • September 28, 2017How to Regulate Artificial Intelligence
The New York Times • September 1, 2017Why Regulating AI Is A Mistake
Forbes • January 9, 2017What AI needs is a dose of realism
O'Reilly • January 5, 2017Is AI evil? No, and that question distracts us from the real concerns, says AI2’s Oren Etzioni
GeekWire • November 21, 2016Artificial Intelligence will empower us, not exterminate us
TEDx • November 19, 2016AI Is Not Out to Get Us
Scientific American • October 24, 2016How to Handle the Rise of Artificial Intelligence
Bloomberg Technology • October 13, 2016No, the Experts Don’t Think Superintelligent AI is a Threat to Humanity
MIT Technology Review • September 20, 2016Artificial Intelligence with Oren Etzioni
Software Engineering Daily • August 29, 2016Deep Learning Isn't a Dangerous Magic Genie. It's Just Math
Wired • June 15, 2016Killer robots won’t doom humanity–but our fears of AI might
Quartz • May 24, 2016AI For the Common Good
EmTech Digital • May 23, 2016Interview: Paul Allen’s artificial intelligence guru on the future of robots and humanity
Geekwire • April 1, 2016Deep Learning And Artificial Intelligence
The Diane Rehm Show • March 30, 2016Marketplace Tech (Clip starts at 4:28)
NPR • March 10, 2016Dream machines and the rise of sentient computers
Vision Magazine • February 1, 2016Driving will be a hobby by 2035, and more predictions from AI expert Oren Etzioni
GeekWire • October 30, 2015Back to the Future Day: Six experts predict life in 2045
The Telegraph • October 21, 2015The Singularity Is Not Coming Soon, and Other AI Insights. Oren Etzioni, CEO of Allen Institute for AI
Irish Tech News • September 2, 2015The big question: how will Artificial Intelligence advance in the next 20 years?
Wired • May 15, 2015Brains behind artificial intelligence: Etzioni takes up Paul Allen's challenge to make machines learn
Puget Sound Business Journal • February 20, 2015AI won't exterminate us. It will empower us.
Backchannel • December 9, 2014Paul Allen's Artificial Intelligence Push (Interview with Oren Etzioni)
Xconomy • December 4, 2014The Next Frontier of Artificial Intelligence
The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation • December 3, 2014Ask Me Anything (AMA) with Oren Etzioni
Reddit.com • September 24, 2014Oren Etzioni Named GeekWire's Hire of the Year
Vulcan.com • May 9, 2014UW Professor Oren Etzioni To Lead Paul Allen's New Artificial Intelligence Institute
KUOW • September 11, 2013Paul Allen Hires Oren Etzioni for New Artificial Intelligence Push
Xconomy • September 9, 2013