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. 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.
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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). 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: PhD in AI (NYU); building AI products since 2015
- Co-founded venture-backed AI startups, including the multi-awarded Spixii
- Founder of Aqura
- 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
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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