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Olaf Witkowski is a Leader of Technological Change and an Ambassador for Compassionate AI and Artificial Life, based in Kyoto, Japan. He is the Founding Director of Cross Labs, an AI research institute in Kyoto focused on fundamental research in Diverse Intelligences and Empathic AI. He is the President of the International Society for Artificial Life. He is the Board Director in charge of Scientific and Technological Innovation at AI company Cross Compass Ltd. in Tokyo, and a co-founder of the Artificial Life Institute in Japan. He is External Faculty at the University of Tokyo, Ritsumeikan University, the Tokyo Institute of Technology, the Chiba Institute of Technology, and Hokkaido University, and an Alumnus Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has launched multiple ventures in science and technology on three continents, including YHouse­ Inc.—a nonprofit transdisciplinary research institute in New York focused on awareness, artificial intelligence and complex systems—and the Center for the Study of Apparent Selves—a basic research institute in Kathmandu at the intersection of Wisdom traditions with AI ethics and cognitive science. View all posts by Olaf Witkowski