Hannah “Alicorn” Finley

Hannah “Alicorn” Finley is Consultant at Kurzweil Technologies and Creative Consultant at 3D Embodiment.
 
Alicorn was previously Visiting Fellow at the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Teaching Assistant at University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Grader at University of Massachusetts Amherst.
 
At the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, she created LessWrong blog posts and other content, did outreach work with SIAI contacts, and provided some logistical and anti-akrasia support to others there. At Kurzweil Technologies, she researches and posts events, books, films, and people to the KAIN blog.
 
Alicorn earned her B.A. in Philosophy and Worldbuilding at Bard College at Simon’s Rock in 2008. Her major in worldbuilding is the result of Simon’s Rock policy that a second major may be created from scratch to accommodate students’ special aptitudes. As part of her self-created curriculum, she proposed and studied courses in such topics as constructed languages, physical geography, and fantasy creatures.
 
She authored Luminosity, Radiance, Charm, Damage Report, and Blue Jewel.
 
Read her Improv Soup and Elcenia: a work of fiction by Alicorn. Read her LinkedIn profile and her FanFiction profile. Read her blog and her webcomic.