@agisummitai: Speaker Spotlight: Mykel Kochenderfer We're trusting AI to fly planes and drive cars. Who makes sure those split-second…
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Spotlight on Stanford professor Mykel Kochenderfer, whose work on safe decision-making algorithms for autonomous systems (including the ACAS X collision-avoidance standard) will be featured at AGI Summit SF 2026, July 18–19.
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Speaker Spotlight: Mykel Kochenderfer We’re trusting AI to fly planes and drive cars. Who makes sure those split-second decisions are safe? Mykel Kochenderfer is a Stanford professor building the algorithms that let autonomous systems make safe decisions under uncertainty — work that’s shaped how the skies stay safe. Associate Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics (courtesy CS), @Stanford Director of the Stanford Intelligent Systems Lab · co-director, Center for AI Safety His early work established ACAS X — the aircraft collision-avoidance standard Author of the MIT Press classics “Algorithms for Decision Making” & “Algorithms for Optimization”
As AI takes the controls in high-stakes settings, his work is what turns “impressive” into “safe enough to trust.”
Hear Mykel on stage at AGI Summit SF 2026.
July 18–19, 2026 Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco Tickets: http://agisummit.ai 15% off with code GenAI-26
#agisummit #aiareall #AIsafety
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