Neil Jacobstein

Chairman and CEO, Teknowledge

Neil Jacobstein is chairman and CEO of Teknowledge Corporation, a 25-year old software company. He has served as a technical consultant on software research and development projects for NSF, DARPA, NASA, NIH, EPA, DOE, the U.S. Army and Air Force, GM, Ford, Boeing, Applied Materials, and other agencies. In 1999, he co-chaired the American Association for Artificial Intelligence's 16th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, and chaired the 17th IAAI Conference in 2005.

Since 1992, he has served as chairman of the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, a not-for-profit research group focused on the long-term feasibility, embedded safeguards, and applications of molecular manufacturing. He was the leading co-author of the Foresight Guidelines for Responsible Nanotechnology Development.

In September of 2007 he presented a talk at the Singularity Summit in San Francisco called "Innovative Applications of Early Stage AI." His view is that early stage artificial intelligence has already produced a wide range of valuable but narrowly focused knowledge systems applications in industry and government. Many of these applications have performed complex tasks such as planning, monitoring, design, risk assessment, diagnosis, training, process control, classification, and analysis. The larger endeavor to produce AI systems that learn and reason at human levels and beyond is promising, and will require both enlightened research sponsorship and appropriate safeguards.

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2007 Singularity Summit, Innovative Applications of Early Stage AI


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