AI CONCLAVE MODERATORS

WOLF TIVY

Wolf Tivy is editor-in-chief of Palladium Magazine, which he co-founded in 2018. Wolf also writes about strategy, philosophy, technology, and the future, interviews featured guests for Palladium, and appears on podcasts.

Prior to Palladium, Wolf spent over five years writing and conducting independent research on artificial intelligence, sociology, and politics. His work has focused on the intersection of philosophy, politics, and technology.

A native of Vancouver, Canada, Wolf trained and worked professionally as a mechanical engineer and holds a degree from the British Columbia Institute of Technology. He and his wife Elise live in San Francisco with three young children.


SKINNER LAYNE

Skinner is a teacher, philosopher, and entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience founding and leading businesses in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe. Lately, he is the founder of Dark Matter, a biotech startup bringing together mycology, genetics, and artificial intelligence to improve selective breeding of fungi.

Skinner also founded and leads WILD Studios in Barcelona, Spain. He has organized and conducted over 80 weeks of intensive educational programs with more than 300 students from over 50 countries. He has also facilitated more than 250 hours of community-building sessions utilizing the methodology developed by M. Scott Peck, and he has lectured for over 1,500 hours to audiences around the world on entrepreneurship, psychology, and philosophy.


NELL WATSON

Eleanor ‘Nell’ Watson, a trailblazer in emerging technologies such as machine vision and A.I. ethics, dedicates her work to protecting human rights and infusing ethics, safety, and values that elevate the human spirit into technologies like Artificial Intelligence.

As IEEE Ethics Maestro, Chair IEEE’s ECPAIS Transparency Experts Focus Group, and Vice Chair of P7001 Transparency of Autonomous Systems committee on A.I. Ethics & Safety, Nell is engineering mechanisms into A.I. to help safeguard algorithmic trust. She also leads several prominent organizations such as EthicsNet.org, teaching machines prosocial behaviors, CulturalPeace.org, crafting Geneva Conventions-style rules for cultural conflict, Endohazard.org, a hazard symbol project for informing consumers of endocrine disruptors, and Pacha.org, connecting a network of service providers to help enable the automated accounting of externalities (shifted costs) such as pollution.

Nell holds the position of Executive Consultant on philosophical matters for Apple, as well as the President of EURAIO, the European Responsible Artificial Intelligence Office. She has served as Senior Scientific Advisor to The Future Society, and Senior Fellow to The Atlantic Council. In addition, she holds fellowships with the British Computing Society and Royal Statistical Society, among others.

Through her public speaking, Nell has inspired audiences to work towards a brighter future at venues such as The World Bank, The United Nations General Assembly, and The Royal Society. Join Nell in her quest to shape a responsible and ethical future for AI.


MATT ELLISON

Matt Ellison is executive director of American Governance Foundation, a San Francisco-based non-profit organization that studies and promotes the betterment of public institutions. Matt is also executive editor of AGF’s flagship quarterly publication, Palladium, where he also writes (occasionally) on history, foreign policy, and culture.

Matt’s background is in scholarship, media, technology, and international affairs. He has organized a range of key research programs, conferences, and retreats. Previously, Matt was a research associate at Stanford and the Hoover Institution, with prior fellowships at Carnegie Mellon and Georgetown, where he also was assistant director of the summer International Relations Institute. Matt is interested in institutional design, governance, and applying rigorous interdisciplinary methods to address hard problems.