Leadership.
The people who direct the Center's work and answer for it.
Ayush Prakash
Director, Center for Innovating the FutureAyush Prakash directs CIF. He is also Chief of Staff at New Sapience, an AI company, where he leads strategy and operations and previously ran its equity crowdfunding.
CIF runs a convening program called AI Skepticism. Its director works for an AI company and writes books about AI. That is a conflict.
He is the author of AI for Gen Z, has co-authored work in Psychology Today with Dr. Ran D. Anbar on AI and the developing brain and in The Montréal Review with Karl Friston, and holds a BA in Philosophy from Toronto Metropolitan University. On the podcast he has hosted Avi Loeb, Karl Friston, and Yaron Brook, among others.