Dave Edwards is a co-founder of the Artificiality Institute, a nonprofit research organization shaping the human experience in a world of synthetic intelligence. Through story-based research, experimental design, and cultural dialogue, he explores how humans and AI co-evolve—not just for efficiency, but for meaning. The Institute imagines a future where diverse intelligences inspire awe, emergent consciousness evokes wonder, and new minds exist in symbiosis with our own. He is extending his research as a Visiting Researcher at the UC Berkeley Center for Human-Compatible AI. 

 

For over a decade, Dave has studied how AI transforms human lives, translating insights into new frameworks for human-AI symbiosis and designing human-centered AI. He previously co-founded Intelligentsia.ai, an AI-focused market research firm, which was acquired by Atlantic Media. Dave’s experience includes shaping Apple’s most iconic creative software products and investing in next gen technologies as a venture capitalist at CRV and equity research analyst at Morgan Stanley and ThinkEquity.