Ian Hogarth is an investor and entrepreneur. He co-founded

Songkick Songkick is a concert discovery service owned by Warner Music Group. The service allows users to search for upcoming concert events in their area, and also track individual artists to receive notifications of upcoming shows in their area. It also ...

in 2007 and Plural Platform in 2021. Hogarth is the current Chair of the UK Government's AI Foundation Model Taskforce, which conducts artificial intelligence safety research.

Education

Hogarth attended

Dulwich College Dulwich College is a 2-18 private, day and boarding school for boys in Dulwich, London, England. As a public school, it began as the College of God's Gift, founded in 1619 by Elizabethan actor Edward Alleyn, with the original purpose of ...

, before studying information engineering at the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...

. He later specialised in

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...

during his Masters. Hogarth also spent time at

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (THU) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Constructio ...

in Beijing, learning

Mandarin Chinese Mandarin ( ; zh, s=, t=, p=Guānhuà, l=Mandarin (bureaucrat), officials' speech) is the largest branch of the Sinitic languages. Mandarin varieties are spoken by 70 percent of all Chinese speakers over a large geographical area that stretch ...

Entrepreneurship and investing

Songkick

Hogarth founded the live music startup

with friends Michelle You and Pete Smith in 2007. This was part of the 2007

Y Combinator Y Combinator, LLC (YC) is an American technology startup accelerator and venture capital firm launched in March 2005 which has been used to launch more than 5,000 companies. The accelerator program started in Boston and Mountain View, Californi ...

program in Boston. Hogarth and his fellow Songkick co-founders were named to

Inc. magazine ''Inc.'' is an American business media company founded in 1979 and based in New York City. ''Inc.'' publishes several print magazine issues per year, and is anchored by journalistic content online and on social media, focused on entrepreneurship a ...

's 30-under-30 list in 2010. The same year, Hogarth won the

British Council The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities. It works in over 100 countries: promoting a wider knowledge of the United Kingdom and the English language (and the Welsh lang ...

’s UK Young Music Entrepreneur of the Year award. He was also named one of Forbes magazine's 2012 music 30-under-30. In 2013, Songkick launched Detour, a crowdfunding platform for concerts. In June 2015, Songkick announced its merger with direct ticket vendor CrowdSurge and a $16.6m Series C investment round. Hogarth became co-CEO of the combined company, alongside Matt Jones, the former CrowdSurge CEO.

Silicon Milkroundabout

In 2010, Hogarth and Songkick COO Pete Smith founded

Silicon Milkroundabout Silicon Milkroundabout is a series of job fairs held in London, England and Edinburgh, Scotland for the UK tech start-up community. The event's name is a portmanteau of Silicon Roundabout and the Milk round university recruiting events. Histo ...

, a career fair for high tech startups in East London. It was established in response to lack of interest from graduates hampering tech start-ups, according to Hogarth.

Plural Platform

Hogarth co-founded Plural Platform in 2021, an early-stage venture capital firm. Hogarth has invested in more than 150 companies, including over 50 AI companies.

Artificial intelligence

Hogarth has co-written the State of AI report since 2018 with Nathan Benaich. He wrote a blog post entitled "

AI Nationalism AI nationalism is the idea that nations should develop and control their own artificial intelligence technologies to advance their own interests and ensure technological sovereignty. This concept is gaining traction globally, leading countries to ...

" about the rise of machine learning influencing a new kind of geopolitics. He also wrote an article in the

Financial Times The ''Financial Times'' (''FT'') is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic Current affairs (news format), current affairs. Based in London, the paper is owned by a Jap ...

arguing that the "race to God-like AI" poses risks, and might lead to human extinction. Hogarth was listed as one of the 100 most influential personalities in the artificial intelligence sphere by the magazine

Time Time is the continuous progression of existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible process, irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequ ...

in 2023.

AI Safety Institute

On 18 June 2023, Hogarth was announced as Chair of the UK Government's

AI Safety Institute An AI Safety Institute (AISI), in general, is a state-backed institute aiming to evaluate and ensure the safety of the most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models, also called frontier AI models. AI safety gained prominence in 2023, notably ...

, an

AI safety AI safety is an interdisciplinary field focused on preventing accidents, misuse, or other harmful consequences arising from artificial intelligence (AI) systems. It encompasses machine ethics and AI alignment, which aim to ensure AI systems are mor ...

research organization.

References

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