SAM ENGLISH ANTHONY

I spent the years from 2016 to 2022 building Perceptive Automata as co-founder and CTO. We built a module for self-driving cars that allowed them to do "theory of mind" tasks, where they were able to reason about what pedestrians were thinking and act on it. We were funded by a mix of west coast VCs and strategic investment from automakers. Our investors included First Round Capital, Toyota AI Ventures, and Hyundai. The technology worked well, but our timing was off (self-driving cars are a long way off yet) and the company wound down operations in 2022... I originally landed at Harvard to work on the web infrastructure of the site Test My Brain, masterminded by my collaborator Laura Germine. We built a platform for careful online psychophysics that was and is unmatched in terms of rigor and scholarly productivity. I am on the board of the Many Brains Project, the nonprofit stewards of Test My Brain and related efforts.