Nell Watson
Nell Watson FBCS, FIAP, FRSA, FLS, FRSS, CITP is an engineer, entrepreneur, and futurist thinker from Northern Ireland. She has a longstanding interest in the philosophy of technology, and how extensions of human capacity drive emerging social trends. Her ability to bridge the world of technology and the Humanities makes it easy for her to translate complex subjects so that they can be clearly understood.
In 2010 Nell founded Poikos, a machine learning-driven ‘AI for for body measurement’. Nell’s patented technology ‘dematerialises’ the 3D body scanner. She is also Co-Founder of EthicsNet.com, a machine ethics dataset that aims to crowdsource ethical heuristics for autonomous systems.
In her spare time, Nell enjoys coding games, such as her startup life simulator, Founder Life. Nell lectures globally on Machine Intelligence, AI philosophy, Human-Machine relations, and the Future of Human Society, serving on the Faculty of AI & Robotics at Singularity University.
