Tony Czarnecki – Managing Partner
Tony is a futurist, who spent most of his life working world-wide as a consultant for large global companies. In 1996, he founded SUSTENSIS, a Management Consultancy focusing on Business Sustainability, which tried to answer the question: “How can companies survive for ever?”, obviously not literally. During that time, Sustensis included over 50 partners. In 2012 Sustensis was converted into a Think Tank on Humanity’s transition to coexistence with Superintelligence, when Tony realised that perhaps it is time to ask: “How can human species be preserved for ever?” No wonder then, that Tony is a long-time member of the London Futurists.
Tony has lectured on postgraduate courses at Universities in Central Europe and the University of London where he has also been a mentor for postgraduate students. He is the author of six books on AI: “Who could save Humanity from Superintelligence?”, “Federate to Survive!“, “Democracy for a Human Federation” and “Becoming a Butterfly – Extinction or Evolution? Will Humans Survive Beyond 2050? “ “2030- Towards the Big Consensus… Or loss of control over our future“, His most recent book, released in July 2023 is “Prevail or Fail: A Civilisational Shift to the World of Transhumans“.
Dr Bruce Lloyd – Member of the Advisory Bord
Dr Bruce Lloyd, Emeritus Professor of Strategic Management, London South Bank University. Spent over 20 years in industry and finance before joining the academic world thirty years ago to help establish the Management Centre at what is now London South Bank University. Since the late 1960’s he has written extensively (about 200 published articles) on a wide range of strategy/futures related issues. Bruce is a member of Chatham House and London Futurists.
Dr David Wood – Member of the Advisory Bord
Dr David Wood,
David is the founder and chair of London Futurists. He spent 25 years as a pioneer of the mobile computing and smartphone industries, including co-founding Symbian in 1998 – the creator of the world’s first successful smartphone operating system. The author or lead editor of ten books about the future, including Smartphones and Beyond, The Abolition of Aging, Sustainable Superabundance, and Vital Foresight. Board Director of the Institute of Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET).
Dr Sabrina Boni – AI alignment
Sabrina has over 15 years of experience as academic researcher, lecturer, Political Analyst, Economics and Business Analyst and Project Manager. She holds Ph.D. in Economics, Business Management, and Organization, having published extensively on Economics, Business Management as well as on political, environmental and sustainability subjects. Her work integrates high-quality research with practical applications.
Her career embodies a commitment to leveraging research and AI for positive societal impact, by integrating rigorous academic expertise with ethical AI development to enhance quality of life while minimising existential risks, which un-aligned AI may pose. That is why she has been engaged in projects to train generative AI models ensuring that they align with societal values and benefit everyone.
Jonathan Clare – AI assisted government decision-making
Jonathan’s science and business degree at Royal Holloway University of London, postgraduate studies in international relations and AI and Ethics at the London School of Economics, as well as postgraduate studies in National Security at Kings College London, opened for him a distinguished career in diplomacy and international relations. He spent over 20 years in senior executive positions in public relations, international trade, investment, business development, and risk analysis.
That experience spanning Latin America and South and Central Asia where he directed political, press and public affairs, as well as security departments has been extended over the last years into AI ethics, existential risks, and AI-assisted government decision making. That’s why at Sustensis, Jonathan is responsible for deploying our Consensus-AI services, currently focused on Citizens’ Assemblies, into local and central government.
Dr. Antonio Di Fenza – AI Control and Transhumanism
Antonio is a creative and critical thinker, a Ph.D. graduate from Cornell University with focus on incorporating AI into various areas of human activity. He weaves technological and cultural threads into multidimensional aspects of AI-driven human evolution. This focuses on the creation of first Transhumans, initially selected from the most advanced AI companies to control AI ‘from inside’ like in this article. His long-term goal is to help usher in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), our gate to the Singularity.
As a futurist, he tracks the development of AI and teaches at seminars on various aspects of AI, educating people about the new frontiers of AI and creativity.