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Amnon Shashua

Wednesday, 27. August 2025 - 18:55

Amnon Shashua has plenty of ventures. While the billionaire Israeli computer science professor and serial entrepreneur is best-known as the leader of Mobileye—a self-driving tech company that’s placed its assistive chips in more than 200 million vehicles—Shashua has also founded AI companies that include a robotics firm, a wearables startup, a digital bank, and, most recently—and most ambitiously—a venture called AAI seeking to create superintelligent AI systems in STEM. He argues that humanity is bottlenecked by a dearth of geniuses in science, technology, engineering, and math—a problem that specialized AI could soon solve.

While his peers pursue the creation of generalized intelligence, Shashua’s betting that by narrowly focusing on superintelligence in STEM, his lab may be able to produce “great scientists at scale” within the next few years. Though current models fail to engage in deep reasoning, he says, AAI has proven a “new training methodology” that will one day allow it. Will this superintelligent AI be aligned with our values and goals? Shashua believes, for mathematical reasons, that is impossible. “I don’t think this is a problem that will be solved,” he says. “It’s a problem that will be managed.” Still, he believes it’s worth pursuing.

When it comes to autonomous driving, Shashua says the way forward is clearer—there are challenges, but no uncertainties. Mobileye has signed deals with Uber and Lyft to roll out autonomous robotaxis starting mid-2026. On the robotics front, though, uncertainties remain. Shashua expects that humanoid robotics will be able to reliably perform “pick, drop, and move” tasks by the end of the decade.

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