Lauren Kunze is currently the CEO of Pandorabots and co-founder of ICONIQ, a Pandorabots spinout working on a humanlike AI operating system for the Metaverse. She is the author of four books published by HarperCollins, and a frequent writer and speaker about AI at conferences like TED, CES, South by Southwest, O'Reilly Media, and Mobile World Congress, and for publications like IEEE, TechCrunch, Quartz, CoinDesk, and VentureBeat.

Kunze and her work have been covered in outlets like the Wall Street Journal, BBC, Guardian, Wired, CNN, RadioLab, Reuters, VICE, Vogue, The New Yorker, and New York Times Magazine.

She graduated from Harvard with a degree in Literature and Language, and Neuroscience.