person
Cassie Kozyrkov
CEO of Data Scientific; former Google Chief Decision Scientist
Decision-intelligence educator who has warned about the 'cult of AI' and frames most enterprise AI failures as failures of decision engineering rather than ML capability.
Profile
expertise
Applied technical
Technical fluency from an adjacent field (security, robotics, formal methods, statistics) or applied AI work, but not on frontier loss curves or core ML theory.
Founder of Data Scientific; former Google chief decision scientist. Decision-science framing of ML deployment. Not a frontier-ML researcher.
recognition
Field-leading
Widely known inside the AI and AI-safety community. Appears repeatedly in top venues, podcasts, or governance forums. Not a household name to outsiders.
Major Medium / LinkedIn following. Recurring conference presence.
vintage
Deep-learning rise
Came up post-AlexNet. ImageNet, AlphaGo, transformer paper. DeepMind, Google Brain, FAIR establish the modern lab template.
Google chief decision scientist 2014–2022. Career maps to deep-learning era applied ML.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
Strategy positions
AI skepticmixed
AGI risk narratives overstated; real harms are mundane and currentArgues for skepticism of enterprise AI hype but supports responsible AI adoption with clear decision framing.
Most AI projects fail at the decision, not the model.
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Record last updated 2026-04-24.