Ian Hogarth is an investor and entrepreneur. He co-founded Songkick in 2007[1] and Plural Platform in 2021.[2] Hogarth is the current Chair of the UK Government's AI Foundation Model Taskforce, which conducts artificial intelligence safety research.
Education
Hogarth attended Dulwich College, before studying information engineering at the University of Cambridge. He later specialised in machine learning during his Masters.[3][4][5] Hogarth also spent time at Tsinghua University in Beijing, learning Mandarin Chinese.[5]
Entrepreneurship and investing
Songkick
Hogarth founded the live music startup Songkick with friends Michelle You and Pete Smith in 2007. This was part of the 2007 Y Combinator program in Boston. Hogarth and his fellow Songkick co-founders were named to Inc. magazine's 30-under-30 list in 2010.[6] The same year, Hogarth won the British Council’s UK Young Music Entrepreneur of the Year award.[7] He was also named one of Forbes magazine's 2012 music 30-under-30.[8]
In 2013, Songkick launched Detour, a crowdfunding platform for concerts.[9]
Artificial intelligence
Hogarth has co-written the State of AI report since 2018 with Nathan Benaich.[15][16] He wrote a blog post entitled "AI Nationalism" about the rise of machine learning influencing a new kind of geopolitics.[17] He also wrote an article in the Financial Times arguing that the "race to God-like AI" poses risks, and might lead to human extinction.[18][15] Hogarth was listed as one of the 100 most influential personalities in the artificial intelligence sphere by the magazine Time in 2023.[15]
AI Safety Institute
References
- MediaGuardian 100 2013 The Guardian, 1 September 2013^
- Plural Thinking: A New Fund Is Recruiting Seasoned Entrepreneurs To Build A Scalable European VC Platform Forbes^
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