Joshua Fields joins the Agency AI advisory board.

Agency AI has appointed Joshua Fields to its advisory board. Fields is the founding chief executive of The Consciousness Foundation and was previously chief executive of Consciousness Hacking, the San Francisco based organisation that built one of the first international communities around technology and human wellbeing. He joins as the Glasgow consultancy expands its work with established UK businesses.

Background

Joshua has spent a decade working at the intersection of science, technology and human wellbeing. He led Consciousness Hacking as chief executive, a community that grew to more than fifty cities from its base in San Francisco, and co-founded the Awakened Futures Summit. He now leads The Consciousness Foundation. He began his career as an FX analyst at Morgan Stanley.

What he will advise on

Health and human performance is the first area. AI is developing quickly in health and wellbeing, and the standard of evidence required is higher than in most sectors. Joshua has worked in that field for a decade, with the research community in San Francisco and with practitioners in the UK.

The second is the technology community itself. A great deal of the work that sets the direction of AI happens in San Francisco, and Joshua has spent years building and convening the engineers, researchers and founders doing it.

The third is the effect our systems have on the people who use them. Every system we build changes how someone spends their working day, and Joshua will hold us to account on whether that change is an improvement.

"Joshua brings a perspective we do not have in the building: a decade in the San Francisco technology community, and real depth in health and human performance. He will make us better at deciding what to build and who to build it for," said Max Modlin, founder of Agency AI.

Joshua joins as Agency AI continues to expand its work with established UK businesses in manufacturing, distribution and construction.

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