Chair of the UK AI Safety Institute and co-founder of Plural
A venture investor in more than 50 AI companies, co-author of the State of AI report, and chair of the UK's AI Safety Institute.
Ian Hogarth is an investor and entrepreneur who co-founded the concert-discovery startup Songkick in 2007 and the early-stage venture firm Plural Platform in 2021. He studied information engineering at the University of Cambridge and specialised in machine learning in his master's, and spent time at Tsinghua University in Beijing learning Mandarin.
He has invested in more than 150 companies, including over 50 AI companies, and has co-written the annual State of AI report with Nathan Benaich since 2018. He wrote a blog post on "AI Nationalism" about how machine learning is creating a new kind of geopolitics, and a 2023 Financial Times article arguing that the race to God-like AI poses risks that might lead to human extinction. On 18 June 2023 he was announced as Chair of the UK government's AI Foundation Model Taskforce, which became its AI Safety Institute. TIME named him to its 2023 list of the 100 most influential people in AI.
Announced on 18 June 2023 as Chair of the UK government's AI Foundation Model Taskforce, which conducts AI safety research and became the AI Safety Institute.
Has invested in more than 150 companies, including over 50 AI companies, and co-founded the venture firm Plural Platform in 2021.
Has co-written the annual State of AI report with Nathan Benaich since 2018.