Mag10 Media & Consulting was founded in 2015 by Ariel Conn. Clients have included The Future of Life Institute, ALLFED, MIT, and IEEE.
About Ariel:
Ariel Conn is the former Director of Communications and Outreach for the Future of Life Institute. Her communications work covers a range of fields, including the safety of artificial intelligence (AI), AI policy, autonomous weapons, nuclear weapons, biotechnology, and climate change. She also serves as an AI policy specialist, focusing on the domestic and international policy debate about lethal autonomous weapons, particularly US DoD policy and the United Nations Convention on Conventional Weapons. She seeks to bridge the gap between technical experts, policy makers, industry, and the general public both in the U. S. and internationally.
She co-organized multiple large open letters and their successful media campaigns, and she’s cohosted and co-organized international events related to AI, autonomous weapons, and nuclear weapons. She spoke at side events at the UN in Geneva, hosted by the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, as well as at a side event at the World Economic Forum in Davos, hosted by the Global Challenges Foundation. She’s been a keynote speaker and panelist for numerous other events. Her work as been published in The Guardian, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, IEEE, Metro UK, the Huffington Post, and more. She produced two well-received podcast series — The FLI Podcast and Not Cool, a Climate Podcast. She participated in the production of the award-winning Slaughterbots video, which has been viewed approximately 70 million times across various platforms. And for the March, 2019 CCW meeting, she created a video in which scientists and tech workers explain their concern regarding autonomous weapons, and that video has received over 20,000 views.
Ariel holds a B.A. in English, a B.S. in physics (with a focus on nuclear physics), and an M.S. in geophysics, and she has nearly two decades of experience mixing advertising, marketing, and scientific research. She’s worked with NASA, the Idaho National Laboratory, the National Energy Technology Laboratory, MIT, and Virginia Tech. In a previous career life, she worked for the ad agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners where, among other things, she created a “got milk?” ad.
This website is a work in progress. If you have questions or want to work together, please contact me at ariel.conn.@gmail.com.