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Max Bennett
AI keynote speaker Max Bennett helps organizations understand artificial intelligence capabilities and limitations through evolutionary neuroscience. Forbes 30 Under 30 founder of an AI unicorn, Max authored A Brief History of Intelligence, praised by Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman.
Max Bennett is an AI entrepreneur and neuroscience researcher who maps the evolutionary history of human intelligence to forecast where artificial intelligence is heading next.
A Forbes 30 Under 30 member, Max founded one of the first AI unicorns in 2013, building it to over $1 billion in valuation and $80 million in revenue. He is the author of A Brief History of Intelligence, praised by Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman as "amazing" and by Google DeepMind's Dileep George as "a joy to read."
Max draws on both his experience scaling an AI company from the ground up and his deep research into how brains evolved over 500 million years. This dual perspective allows him to cut through hype and offer grounded, specific predictions about AI capabilities, limitations, and trajectories. Audiences walk away with a framework for thinking about machine intelligence that is rooted in biology rather than speculation.
From Max's sessions, audiences gain a clear mental model for understanding what today's AI systems can and cannot do, practical insight into how evolutionary breakthroughs in the brain map onto current AI architectures, and a realistic timeline for what comes next in machine intelligence, drawn from patterns in nature rather than industry marketing.
Book Max to give your audience a rare combination of founder-level AI experience and rigorous scientific thinking about intelligence itself.
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Max Bennett uses an evolutionary framework, tracing 500 million years of brain development to map current AI architectures and forecast future capabilities — grounding predictions in biological patterns rather than industry speculation.
Max Bennett speaks on the evolutionary history of intelligence, the capabilities and limitations of current AI systems, and forecasting the trajectory of machine intelligence. He is the author of A Brief History of Intelligence, praised by Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, and founded one of the first AI unicorns, scaling it to over $1 billion in valuation.
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