Ashley is an applied scientist-turned-entrepreneur, deep tech angel investor, and certified pilot. Her passion is to help unlock the market potential of in-space manufacturing while also advancing U.S. aerospace and defense capabilities with AI.

She’s an expert authority on AI applications and as Technical Director to the CTO, led OpenAI’s research and product releases including MuseNet, Jukebox, Rubik’s Cube, OpenAI API, Codex, Image GPT, Multi-agent, CLIP, and DALL-E. She also created OpenAI’s developer ecosystem program where she helped launch a variety of partner applications and mentor startups powered by GPT-3. Previously, she oversaw the design, development, and launch of the DOE-funded project, “Grid Resilience & Intelligence Platform” (GRIP) at SLAC National Accelerator Lab. GRIP leveraged AI to anticipate, absorb, and recover from grid events such as wildfires, ice storms, or cyberattacks.

By 32, she had traveled to all 7 continents, trekked over 130 miles to install three solar microgrids that electrified one of the most remote villages in the Himalayas, and installed two weather stations in Antarctica to gather data simulating certain conditions on Mars.

Press

• OPENAI IS MAKING HEADLINES. IT’S ALSO SEEDING TALENT ACROSS SILICON VALLEY (THE INFORMATION 2023)

• OPENAI MAFIA HAS RAISED OVER $1 BILLION: WHO ARE THEY (NEWSBYTES 2023)

• CAN COMPUTERS REALLY TALK? (PBS 2021)

• ARTISTIC ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (FUN KIDS SCIENCE PODCAST 2021)

• YOU CAN’T SPELL CREATIVE WITHOUT A.I. (NEW YORK TIMES 2020)

• HOW A.I. CAN HELP HANDLE SEVERE WEATHER (NEW YORK TIMES 2019)

• USING AI TO PROTECT THE GRID (BLOOMBERG TECHNOLOGY 2019)

Presentations

• GIRL GEEK X ELEVATE SUMMIT (2021)

• GIRL GEEK X OPENAI (2019)

• ICML WORKSHOP: CLIMATE CHANGE + AI (2019)

• GTM BLOCKCHAIN IN ENERGY FORUM (2018)

• STANFORD EXEC COURSE: BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY FOR THE GRID (2018)

• GLOBAL SUMMIT ON BLOCKCHAIN IN ENERGY SECTOR (2018)

• EDMUND HILLARY FELLOWSHIP (2017)

• UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (2016)

Publications/COntributions

• GPT-3 POWERS THE NEXT GENERATION OF APPS (OPENAI 2021)

• ALGORITHMIC ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE (YALE JOURNAL ON REGULATION 2019)

• ASSESSING BLOCKCHAIN’S FUTURE IN TRANSACTIVE ENERGY (ATLANTIC COUNCIL 2019)

• GRID MODERNIZATION PEER REVIEW REPORT (DOE 2018)

• ACCELERATING SUSTAINABLE ENERGY INNOVATION (WEF 2018)

• SUSTAINABILITY IN THE GULF: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES (ROUTLEDGE 2017)

Header image by SpaceX via Flickr (2021)