About

Dr. Oren Etzioni has served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) since its inception in 2014. He has been a Professor at the University of Washington's Computer Science department since 1991, and a Venture Partner at the Madrona Venture Group since 2000. He has garnered several awards including Seattle's Geek of the Year (2013), the Robert Engelmore Memorial Award (2007), the IJCAI Distinguished Paper Award (2005), AAAI Fellow (2003), and a National Young Investigator Award (1993). He has been the founder or co-founder of several companies, including Farecast (sold to Microsoft in 2008) and Decide (sold to eBay in 2013). He has written commentary on AI for The New York Times, Nature, Wired, and the MIT Technology Review. He helped to pioneer meta-search (1994), online comparison shopping (1996), machine reading (2006), and Open Information Extraction (2007). He has authored over 100 technical papers that have garnered over 2,000 highly influential citations on Semantic Scholar. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon in 1991 and his B.A. from Harvard in 1986.

TEDx Talk

Artificial Intelligence will empower us, not exterminate us (TEDx Seattle; November 19, 2016)

Selected Works

• AI Academy Under Siege (Inside HigherEd, 2019)
• Analysis: Seattle startup ecosystem poised for unprecedented acceleration of company creation (GeekWire, 2019)
• High Stakes AI Decisions Need to be Automatically Audited (Wired, 2019)
• We have the basis for an international AI treaty (The Hill, 2019)
• How Will We Prevent AI-Based Forgery? (Harvard Business Review, 2019)
• What Trump's Executive Order On AI Is Missing (Wired, 2019)
• Should AI Technology be Regulated? Yes, and Here's How (CACM, 2018)
• A ‘Manhattan Project’ for science research (The Hill, 2018)
• A Hippocratic Oath for artificial intelligence practitioners (TechCrunch, 2018)
• How to Regulate Artificial Intelligence (New York Times, 2017)
• Workers Displaced By Automation Should Try a New Job: Caregiver (Wired, 2017)
• AI zooms in on highly influential citations (Nature, 2017)
• Deep Learning Isn’t Magic (Wired, 2016)
• No, the Experts Don’t Think Superintelligent AI is a Threat to Humanity (MIT Technology Review, 2016)
• Quora Session with Oren Etzioni (Quora, 2016)
• To Keep AI Safe -- Use AI (Vox, 2016)
• AI Won't Exterminate Us — it Will Empower Us (Backchannel, 2014)
• Web Search Needs a Shakeup (Nature, 2011)
• Open Information Extraction from the Web (CACM, 2008)
• A Softbot-based Interface to the Internet (CACM, 1994)

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