About Jo

Bio

Founded Wysa in 2015 - the first clinically safe AI bot for mental health also the largest pre GPT, now building AI supported mental health infrastructure in low resource settings, and setting up an awarding body for care economy. Van Leer Fellow exploring AI for parent support. Personal exploration - writing a book on retaining agency in the world of AI, and another on measuring spirituality. Previous life - skilling, employability, tech4good

I'm passionate about

Good Design

An idea worth spreading

If every development project working in low resource (esp tribal) languages can capture a few hundred hours of bilingual audio and all project translated documents in a repository then it will take us just a year to bridge the AI divide in low resource languages. Working on a playbook to do this, ping me to be a part of this!

Things you might not know

Sufi poetry, Sanskrit etymology, zen koans