Shivon Zilis — Cosign

Shivon Zilis is an operator and investor focused on machine intelligence.

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Shivon Zilis is an operator and investor focused on machine intelligence.

Career

Shivon Zilis holds a BA, Economics and Philosophy from Yale University.

Director of Operations and Special Projects at Neuralink until PresentWorks on operations and special projects. Joined Neuralink in 2017; was Director of the Office of the CEO by 2021 before the later Operations and Special Projects role.

Advisor at Bloomberg Beta until PresentWas a founding investor and partner focused on machine intelligence from 2012 to 2018 before the later advisory role.

Board Member at Shield AI until Present

Board Member at OpenAI from 2020 to 2023

Project Director, Autopilot and Chip Design at Tesla from 2017 to 2019

Investing Announcements

Shield AI

Domino Data Lab

Alation

InfluxData

Cosigns Received

Ilya SutskeverCo-founder and CEO at Safe Superintelligence

First Cosign

She has an extremely broad view of how the space is evolving

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Ryan TsengCo-founder and CEO of Shield AI

Second Cosign

Shivon has extensive expertise building and leading teams to solve the world’s hardest AI problems.

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The Future of Brain–Machine Interfaces — Shivon Zilis

In this 2021 talk and Q&A, Shivon Zilis explains Neuralink’s engineering challenges, medical ambitions and approach to building an interdisciplinary team.

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shivonzilis.format.com

The Machine Intelligence Landscape

Zilis maps the emerging machine-intelligence industry and examines research, commercialization, and opportunities for new companies.

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oreilly.com

The current state of machine intelligence 3.0

A 2016 report with James Cham on enterprise adoption, specialized agents, and the difficulty of turning AI research into enduring businesses. Landscape design by Heidi Skinner.