Erik J. Larson (1971) is a computer scientist and technology entrepreneur. Founder of two AI startups funded by DARPA (the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), he is currently working on fundamental questions about natural language processing and machine learning. Through his research at the IC2 Think Tank at the University of Texas, Erik has experimented with the technical limits of AI and, as a writer, has published articles in The Atlantic, Wired and other professional media in the US. .