The Ideas Council brings together world-class AI experts from many disciplines: researchers, builders and critics who know AI’s hardest questions at first hand. They guide UNSOLVED to the heart of AI’s open problems and to what solving them would make possible.
The first invited members have all spoken at TEDAI, the conference our team ran in Vienna from 2024 to 2026. More will be named as they join.
AI and design researcher who lectures at Cambridge and UCL
Studies how AI changes knowledge work and human thought, and leads research at Microsoft on tools that strengthen critical thinking.
TEDAI 2025How to stop AI from killing your critical thinking
Clinical psychologist and digital rights advocate
A former content moderator who founded the Digital Rights and Mental Health Initiative and chairs the steering committee of the African Content Moderators Union in Nigeria.
TEDAI 2026AI and digital labor
Politician and member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
Weeks before her election she became the target of a deepfake. She speaks about what AI can do to truth and to democracy.
Research scientist in world models and self-supervised learning
Focuses on joint-embedding predictive architectures (JEPA), which learn to understand the world by predicting abstractions, not raw data. Completed a doctorate at McGill University and Mila.
TEDAI 2026AI and world models
The council is chaired by UNSOLVED’s founders, Alina Nikolaou and Vlad Gozman, who invite its members.
