Preparing society for advanced (potentially conscious) AI
- flexibility
- Open to proposals
Excited to mentor projects on
I would be excited to mentor projects involving AI strategy, governance, digital minds, or societal readiness for advanced AI, particularly when they are moving from research or early ideas toward a real organization, program, or product. I can be most helpful with strategy, organizational design, budgeting, leadership systems, executive communication, and turning ambitious work into focused deliverables with measurable impact.
Who I'm looking for
- Must-have: Thoughtful, coachable
- Nice-to-have: Sense of humor :)
Support offered
- Strategic guidance
- Organizational design
- Budgeting
- Leadership support
- Executive communication
- Help turning ideas into clear plans, strong deliverables, and measurable results
- format
- Project scoping · Field-building & outreach · Product & entrepreneurship · Research & writing · Other
- topic
- Tools for advocates · Post-AGI transition · Longtermism · Artificial sentience · Macrostrategy · Other
Tony Rost
Tony Rost is Global Director of AI Practice at Accenture, where he advises senior executives on AI strategy, governance, operating models, and investment priorities, and leads a global team of architects across four regions. Previously, he spent ten years as a CTO, leading technology, product, design, and delivery work for organizations including Sony, Disney, Siemens, and Daimler.
Tony also served as a Governor-appointed, Oregon Senate-confirmed member of the Oregon Workforce and Talent Development Board, advising on technology and AI workforce impacts. He is the founder of The Harder Problem Project, a nonprofit focused on societal readiness for possible AI sentience.
As a mentor, Tony helps people strengthen strategy, organizational design, finances, leadership systems, delivery, and measurable impact.