--- title: "Oren Etzioni · AI Fault Line" url: https://aifaultline.com/authors/oren-etzioni/ description: "AI Fault Line is a neutral, evidence-cited field guide to why experts looking at the same developments disagree about AI's effect on productivity, jobs, inequality, regulation and the pace of change." --- [Researchers](https://aifaultline.com/authors/) # Oren Etzioni Computer scientist, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington Signed the letter · Academia · United States [homepage](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~etzioni/site/) · [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oren_Etzioni) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Washington, which he joined in 1991 after a PhD at Carnegie Mellon University. Founding CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), appointed in 2013, where he helped create the Semantic Scholar search engine. Founder of TrueMedia.org, a nonprofit that uses AI to identify manipulated media. Co-author of 'Green AI' (Communications of the ACM, 2020) and research on open information extraction. Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter. [AI-written](https://aifaultline.com/about/) Documented facts only, from the sources below. 12 works in the co-authorship map · 6,953 citations across them Sources 1. [Oren Etzioni - Wikipedia (UW faculty since 1991, PhD Carnegie Mellon, founding CEO of AI2, Semantic Scholar)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oren_Etzioni) 2. [Oren Etzioni biography (founder of TrueMedia.org)](https://www.aaespeakers.com/keynote-speakers/oren-etzioni) 3. [Green AI](https://doi.org/10.1145/3381831) 4. “Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter” — [source](https://wemustactnow.ai) ## In the network 1 co-author on the map · PageRank #137 of 400 · bridge #224 of 400. Measured on this map only, which grows out of the letter's signatories; [what these numbers mean](https://aifaultline.com/authors/network/#about). [See Oren Etzioni on the map](https://aifaultline.com/authors/network/#map=oren-etzioni) ## Documented positions [Will AI actually boost productivity and growth?](https://aifaultline.com/debate/productivity/) unknown No documented evidence reviewed yet. [Will AI destroy more jobs than it creates?](https://aifaultline.com/debate/jobs/) unknown No documented evidence reviewed yet. [Will AI widen inequality?](https://aifaultline.com/debate/inequality/) unknown No documented evidence reviewed yet. [Should governments act on AI now?](https://aifaultline.com/debate/regulation/) unknown No documented evidence reviewed yet. [How fast will the impact arrive?](https://aifaultline.com/debate/pace/) unknown No documented evidence reviewed yet. ## Selected work - [Green AI](https://doi.org/10.1145/3381831) - [Identifying Relations for Open Information Extraction](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.220.8889) ## Writes with [Anthony Fader](https://aifaultline.com/authors/network/#map=anthony-fader) (3) Co-authors on the map, by papers written together (1 of 1 shown). Something wrong? [Request a correction](https://github.com/bob-rietveld/wemustactnow/issues).