Oren Etzioni

Professor Emeritus

Dr. Oren Etzioni is the founder of TrueMedia.org, a nonprofit fighting political deepfakes. He was the Founding Chief Executive Officer at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), having served as CEO from its inception in 2013 until late 2022. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington where he helped to pioneer meta-search, online comparison shopping, machine reading, and open information extraction. He has authored several award-winning technical papers, achieving an H-index of 100 (100 technical papers each cited over 100 times). Finally, he is a technical director of the AI2 Incubator and a Venture Partner at Madrona. He has founded several companies including Farecast (acquired by Microsoft).

Semantic Scholar

About

Talks and Interviews

Artificial Intelligence will empower us, not exterminate us (TEDx Seattle; November 19, 2016)
Interview: The Sequence (TheSequence, 2021)
Podcast: The case against (worrying about) existential risk from AI (Towards Data Science, 2021)
Podcast: AI Ignition (Deloitte, 2021)
Lecture with Andrew Ng: Natural Language Processing with Attention Models (Coursera, 2020)
Interview: Is GPT-3 Intelligent? A Directors’ Conversation with Oren Etzioni (Stanford HAI, 2020)
Podcast: Behind the Tech with Kevin Scott (Microsoft, 2020)

Selected Works

AI’s progress isn’t the same as creating human intelligence in machines (MIT Technology Review, 2022)
How homeowners defeated Zillow’s AI, which led to Zillow Offers’ demise (GeekWire, 2022)
America needs AI literacy now (pnw.ai, 2021)
4 Ways Startups Will Drive GPT-3 Adoption in 2021 (TechCrunch, 2021)
AI Can Help Scientists Find a Covid-19 Vaccine (Wired, 2020)
How to know if artificial intelligence is about to destroy civilization (MIT Tech Review, 2020)
AI Academy Under Siege (Inside HigherEd, 2019)
Analysis: Seattle startup ecosystem poised for unprecedented acceleration of company creation (GeekWire, 2019)
High Stakes AI Decisions Need to be Automatically Audited (Wired, 2019)
We have the basis for an international AI treaty (The Hill, 2019)
How Will We Prevent AI-Based Forgery? (Harvard Business Review, 2019)
What Trump’s Executive Order On AI Is Missing (Wired, 2019)
Should AI Technology be Regulated? Yes, and Here’s How (CACM, 2018)
A ‘Manhattan Project’ for science research (The Hill, 2018)
A Hippocratic Oath for artificial intelligence practitioners (TechCrunch, 2018)
How to Regulate Artificial Intelligence (New York Times, 2017)
Workers Displaced By Automation Should Try a New Job: Caregiver (Wired, 2017)
AI zooms in on highly influential citations (Nature, 2017)
Deep Learning Isn’t Magic (Wired, 2016)
No, the Experts Don’t Think Superintelligent AI is a Threat to Humanity (MIT Tech Review, 2016)
Quora Session with Oren Etzioni (Quora, 2016)
To Keep AI Safe – Use AI (Vox, 2016)
AI Won’t Exterminate Us — it Will Empower Us (Backchannel, 2014)
From Star Trek to Siri: How the Machine-Reading Revolution will dictate the future (CNN, 2013)
Web Search Needs a Shakeup (Nature, 2011)
Open Information Extraction from the Web (CACM, 2008)
A Softbot-based Interface to the Internet (CACM, 1994)