Ayush Prakash

Curriculum Vitae

Ayush Prakash. Montreal. English and French. ORCID 0009-0003-5287-9694.

Research

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The First AI-Native Generation
A living, source-linked analysis of the public podcast archive, mapping agreements, disagreements, and unresolved questions across conversations about AI.

Books

AI for Gen Z
What artificial intelligence means for the first generation growing up inside it.
Book
The Transcendence of Technology
A Spiritual Return for Humanity.
November 2026

Publications

The Infinity of the Brain and the Void of the Machine
With Karl Friston. Invited by The Montreal Review to develop a named series and related symposiums.
The Montreal Review
The Risks of AI and Social Media for the Developing Brain
With Dr. Ran Anbar. What clinicians see in young people who grew up inside algorithmic systems.
Psychology Today · Nov 2025

Selected Talks

The First AI-Native Generation

How a public archive can map what the field agrees on, disputes, and has not resolved.

Developmentally Responsible AI

A framework for building systems that young people grow up inside.

Digital Minds, Human Attribution, and Public Trust

Why people believe machines have minds, and what follows for policy.

Experience

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Director of Corporate Strategy, New Sapience Dec 2025 – Present
Deterministic-AI company founded by veterans of DARPA, NASA, and the NSA. Business operations and institutional capital strategy, working on non-LLM machine cognition alongside the technical founding team.
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Director, Center for Innovating the Future
Toronto strategy innovation lab housing Mantic Publishing, Co-Existing with AI, and the Ayush Prakash Podcast. Research agendas, editorial programs, and convening concepts on responsible AI, public trust, governance, and human cognition.
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Creative Director, New Sapience Feb 2023 – Dec 2025
AI narrative, editorial strategy, and investor communications behind two equity rounds raising $3.5M from 2,000+ investors.

Public Scholarship

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The Ayush Prakash Podcast
150+ published conversations with researchers, scientists, and philosophers since 2021, including Karl Friston and Avi Loeb. 6 episodes are designated as source material for the current research program. 20 published essays.

Education

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Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy
Toronto Metropolitan University, 2023.
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