Chappy Asel is the Founder & Chairman of The AI Collective, a global non-profit community helping people understand, build with, and responsibly shape artificial intelligence. The AI Collective has grown to 200,000+ members across 150+ chapters worldwide, bringing together founders, researchers, operators, investors, and policymakers at the frontier of AI. Chappy is also building a new company focused on collective intelligence infrastructure for AI agents. He previously worked at Apple on Vision Pro and early Apple Intelligence prototypes, and has founded multiple other software companies – including the #1 homework planner app in the world which was acquired while he was in college. His work focuses on AI adoption, open and decentralized AI, and the social infrastructure needed for humanity to navigate the transition to increasingly capable AI systems.
