Alberto Chierici
Alberto Chierici helps founders and solopreneurs stay AI-legible and human as AI reshapes how they build, market, and lead.
This site is a small text adventure — it needs JavaScript. The short version: Alberto Chierici (PhD in AI, NYU) is Principal AI Specialist at Gradient Institute, advising governments and companies on responsible AI. Before that, fifteen years in data science at Deloitte, Tesla, and a run of startups — self-taught in ML/AI since 2013, with an MSc in Statistics (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca) ahead of the PhD. Serial entrepreneur (co-founder of the multi-awarded Spixii, founder of Aqura), author of "The Ethics of AI: Facts, Fictions and Forecasts" (2021), advisor to 100+ leaders, read weekly by ~25,000 people on LinkedIn and Substack. He helps founders, solopreneurs and experts scale their business in a context disrupted by AI — mastering the machine without delegating your soul away.
About
Alberto Chierici is a Principal AI Specialist at Gradient Institute, holds a PhD in AI from New York University, and is the author of "The Ethics of AI: Facts, Fictions and Forecasts" (2021). Before Gradient Institute and Aqura, he spent fifteen years in data science roles at Deloitte, Tesla, and a run of startups, self-taught in ML/AI since 2013, with an MSc in Statistics from Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca. He co-founded the AI startup Spixii and founded Aqura. He writes Human Override, read weekly by ~25,000 people on LinkedIn and Substack, about staying human as AI reshapes work.
Faction dossier: Alberto Chierici
- Class: Philosopher-engineer
- Guild: Gradient Institute — Principal AI Specialist, advising governments and companies on responsible AI
- XP: MSc Statistics (Bicocca) → self-taught ML/AI from 2013 → PhD in AI (NYU)
- Fifteen years in data science: Deloitte, Tesla, and a run of startups
- Co-founded venture-backed AI startups, including the multi-awarded Spixii
- Founder of Aqura
- Founded Grenade, a tech platform helping insurance agents save time
- Advised 100+ leaders, from scale-ups to global companies
- Author of "The Ethics of AI: Facts, Fictions and Forecasts" (2021)
- Guest speaker: Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard, and others
- ~25,000 weekly readers on LinkedIn and Substack
- Publishes an AI-use disclosure for everything he writes — see https://www.albertochierici.com/ai-disclosure.html
- Selected talks & media — see https://www.albertochierici.com/talks.html
The creed of the genuine curious
We are living through one of those technological shifts that remake whole societies. To navigate it you don't need techbros on twitter — you need good, practical, grounded-in-science philosophy.
The bet is simple: when everyone has the same models, your vulnerable humanity is the last real competitive advantage.
We take the best of the machine — the market gaps, the leverage, the automated systems — without compromising our minds or delegating our souls away. We experiment, build stuff, get lost, drop it all to read a book and touch some grass. Then we come back and build surprisingly nice things.
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Human Override, the newsletter ·
Gradient Institute ·
Aqura ·
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Talks & Media ·
AI Disclosure ·
The Ethics of AI (book)
