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
Flagship research report on how sustained interaction with conversational AI affects cognition, identity, agency, and epistemic development. Accompanying policy brief and a Developmentally Responsible AI Framework. First edition November 2026.

Books

AI for Gen Z
What artificial intelligence means for the first generation growing up inside it.
Book
The Transcendence of Money
On the future of value.
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

What sustained interaction with conversational AI does to development.

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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Chief of Staff, 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, Centre for Innovating the Future
Montreal venture studio housing Mantic Publishing, AI Skepticism, 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
168 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 programme. 20 published essays.

Education

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Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy
Toronto Metropolitan University, 2023.
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