Mira Lane

Who she is

Affiliation (role check run 2026-10-03): Vice President, Technology & Society, Google, and founder of its Envisioning Studio, which Google itself now defines as "an AI innovation prototyping lab within our Technology and Society organization … with the mission of co-creating AI tools with artists" (Storyboard18, 2026-06-03). Title trail: joined Google in early 2023 as Senior Director, Technology & Society (GeekWire, 2023; MIT Press bio still says Senior Director at Dec 2024; Business Insider still "senior director" in a 2025 interview) → VP first seen on the Google I/O 2025 speaker page and in the LA Times, 2025-05-28. (blog.google retro-stamps her 2023–24 posts "Vice President" — byline bios update, so they are not a dating source.) Sits under James Manyika, SVP Research, Labs, Technology & Society. Since 2026-06-03 the Studio has a Global Lead, Prashant Paulose, running "international strategy and expansion" — a growth hire, not a replacement; no primary says whom he reports to. Google's "point person on Hollywood studio partnerships" (Fast Company, via dated search summary — not fetched; Deadline 2025-05 names Neil Parris as Google's film chief and the 100 Zeros production push sits in Platform & Devices, so she is one of at least two Google faces in Hollywood, not the only one).
Before Google: 18 years at Microsoft (Bing, MSN, food & drink apps, Teams; developer → program management → UX architect); founded Ethics & Society in 2017 as Partner Director; announced her departure in a LinkedIn post in December 2022. Co-editor, Collaborative Intelligence: How Humans and AI Are Transforming Our World (MIT Press, 2024-12-17, 350 pp., with Arathi Sethumadhavan) — absent from v1. Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Waterloo. Patents on unified messaging and search from the Microsoft years (Google Scholar: 521 citations, h-index 12). Practising artist: poetry, ceramics, video, painting, monoprint (miralane.com). Judge, Future Vision XPRIZE (announced 2026-08-12; winner The Gifted, $2.5M, named at Moonshots LIVE 2026-09-25).
One-line position: "Narratives about technology in films are overwhelmingly characterized by a dystopian perspective" (LA Times, 2025-05-28) — so the work is to put creators inside the build process and to put hopeful, "deeply human" AI stories on screen. v1's line ("technology's failures are failures of imagination … put creative practice inside the build process, not in a review board") was the bench's gloss; her own words in 2025–26 are about narratives and co-creation, not about review.

Discipline & technical bet

A mathematician-engineer who became a corporate ethicist and then moved back toward building — the trajectory v1 saw is real, but the destination is not what v1 called it. Her own account (Business Insider, 2025-07-27): "technology is built, and then people have to deal with decisions that weren't really intentional," so she wrote a one-page pitch for "a team of creative strategists, philosophers, and researchers" — the lab that became the Envisioning Studio. The bet, as revealed: embed with artists, filmmakers and designers; build them custom tools on Google's models (Flow, Veo, Music AI Sandbox); feed what they want back into the product teams; and change the public story about AI through the work itself. In Google's words the Studio "embeds with A-list filmmakers on tech-forward productions and works with Google DeepMind, Labs, Creative Lab, and Flow to build custom creative tools" (blog.google, 2026-09-18). That is a creative-partnerships and advocacy function, not an ethics function. The Microsoft-era method — Harms Modeling, the Judgment Call game (Ballard, Chappell & Kennedy, DIS 2019, with Lane acknowledged), "ecosystem-centered design" (TWIML, 2019-02-23) — does not appear in any 2024–26 primary found. The technical wager underneath: that generative video and music models become usable by professionals only when the professionals co-design the tooling ("ensure they're firmly in the driver's seat," 2026-09-18).

Key claims (Says)

• Corporate systems standardize people; creative practice is the counterforce. Held — still her site's framing (miralane.com, undated); restated in operational form in 2025: technology gets built "and then people have to deal with decisions that weren't really intentional" (Business Insider, 2025-07-27).
• Understanding how people actually interact with computers is the foundation — a human-factors position. Held — from "how does this object you're creating fit into the ecosystem … what is the ripple effect" (TWIML, 2019-02-23) to the Studio's 2026 rule of "co-developing tools that work within their existing processes" (blog.google, 2026-09-18).
• Technology must serve meaningful purposes and its harms must be actively mitigated. Drifted — the "harms" half has gone quiet. Her Microsoft record is harms-first (Harms Modeling, Judgment Call, a 2021 podcast on "ethical auditing from the beginning of product development"); every 2024–26 primary found is hope-first ("coexist," "deeply human stories," "combat a deluge of dystopian narratives"). Same values, inverted emphasis — the Harris frame-drift rule applies. Check: does any 2027 byline, talk or book chapter from her name a harm of a Google generative product? None found through 2026-10-03.
• Art and engineering are one investigation in different media. Held — "I find it hard to draw the line of where one begins and the other ends" (miralane.com); a 350-page edited volume on the theme (MIT Press, 2024-12-17); the Dialogues on Technology and Society interview series she hosts.
• v1 inferred: "ethics belongs inside the product process — founding an ethics function and then choosing a prototyping studio is an argument made with a career." Wrong — as a description of what she built, and it was the bench's inference, not her claim (no quote supported it). The Studio's stated mission is "co-creating AI tools with artists" (Google, 2026-06-03); her own pitch was a lab of "creative strategists, philosophers, and researchers" (2025-07-27). The career move was out of ethics-as-a-function and into creative partnerships. Kept here graded, per hard rule 5. Her actual stated position: creators should "seize control of the narrative and build from within" rather than have AI "happening to them" (The Ankler, 2026-08-20).
• Hopeful, credible futures are undersupplied and that is fixable. Held — and now explicit, not implied: "Narratives about technology in films are overwhelmingly characterized by a dystopian perspective … How might we tell more deeply human stories? What does it look like to coexist?" (LA Times, 2025-05-28); "narrative films present an opportunity to explore and showcase the ways we want to coexist with this technology" (her byline, 2025-04-10). The Future Vision seat is the third vehicle for the same claim after AI on Screen and the Dialogues series.
• NEW — Non-technical skills are the scarce input for the AI era ("critical thinking, nuanced communication, ethical reasoning, and creative problem-solving" — paraphrased by a secondary, SoftwareCurio, undated; no primary quote located). Flagged, not graded — attribute only when a dated primary carries it.

Notable predictions — with falsifiable checks

• She makes no dated forecasts; v1 was right to say so and this pass found none. The three implicit claims v1 attached checks to are graded below, and one new live check is added.
• (v1 implicit) Prototyping changes decisions where review does not. Check was: any Google product decision publicly attributed to Envisioning Studio work. Drifted — observable met, valence inverted. Studio output is now traceable to shipped things: two custom Google Flow tools built with Jane Wade and Sergio Hudson for NYFW (blog.google, 2026-09-18); the Music AI Sandbox incubator with YouTube and DeepMind (her byline, 2024-11-20); the Serpentine round-table on how artist collaborations "shaped research and product investments" (Google Arts & Culture, 2024-03-13). Every traceable decision is a feature added; none is a release withheld. The claim v1 meant — prototypes as a brake — has no observable in the record. Next check: a Google post-mortem, model card or policy that credits Technology & Society / the Studio with a restriction, by end-2027.
• (v1 implicit) An internal ethics function can meaningfully constrain a frontier lab — test case: what became of Microsoft Ethics & Society after she founded it. Wrong, on the record. Team ~30 (2020) → ~7 in the October 2022 reorganisation → eliminated 2023-03-06 under CVP John Montgomery, as leadership pushed to "take these most recent openAI models … and move them into customers hands at a very high speed" (Platformer, 2023-03). She announced her exit in December 2022 (LinkedIn, not fetched — dated by its activity id and the 2023 GeekWire hire note) — i.e. the function she founded was down to seven when she left and gone three months later. The Office of Responsible AI survived; the team with "operational connection to product teams" did not. The miss is the environment's, not hers, but the claim is graded on the observable and the observable failed. v1 called this "the single most revealing fact about this persona" and it is.
• (v1) Technology & Society at Google survives the next cost cycle with its remit intact. Held (live) — Google's 2026 cuts hit Platform & Devices, Cloud threat intelligence and manager layers (TechCrunch running list, 2026-07-06; secondary trackers), with no report touching Technology & Society; the Studio added a Global Lead for expansion on 2026-06-03. Caveat on "remit": at Google the remit was never ethics review, so survival proves less than v1 hoped. Check: headcount or leadership change in Technology & Society by end-2027; Studio absorbed into Labs or DeepMind = Drifted.
• NEW (live) — AI on Screen delivers. Launched 2025-04-10 with Range Media Partners, "the next 18 months" to develop shorts and greenlight two into features (IMDb/Variety summary; her byline). Sweetwater premiered at Cinema Village, New York (her byline, 2025-09-17); Lucid announced. The 18-month window closes ~October 2026. Check: two feature greenlights publicly announced by 2027-03-31 → Held; one → Drifted; none, or the program goes quiet → Wrong. Google disclosed no investment amount (LA Times, 2025-05-28) — budget is a FLAG.
• NEW (live) — The Hollywood "Human Generative Workflows" framework she helped convene gets adopted. AFI AI Summit: Creators at the Center, 2026-08-15, co-convened by Kathleen Kennedy, Susan Ruskin and Lane; 120 participants; four working groups; framework published 2026-08-20 splitting AI use into Utility Techniques / Human Generative Workflows (copyrightable) / Machine Generative (not) (AFI; The Ankler). Check: a guild (WGA, SAG-AFTRA, DGA), the MPA, or a studio cites HGW in a contract, policy or Copyright Office filing by end-2027 → Held; silence → Drifted; a guild publicly rejects it → Wrong.

Revealed behavior (Does)

• Built an ethics function from nothing at Microsoft (2017) — then left it in December 2022 at seven people, three months before it was dissolved. Both halves are the record; v1 carried only the first.
• Pitched and built a creative-partnerships lab at Google (2023→). Her own one-page pitch (2025-07-27); the Studio's named outputs, dated: Alternative Images of AI — three commissioned photographers, ICP New York, through 2025-01-06 (2024-12-12); Music AI Sandbox incubator (2024-11-20); AI on Screen with Range (2025-04-10; Sweetwater 2025-09-17); custom Flow tools for NYFW (2026-09-18).
• Became Google's moderator-in-chief for AI and storytelling. Moderated Darren Aronofsky and Demis Hassabis on "Storytelling in the Age of AI" at I/O 2025 (2025-05-28); hosted Doug Liman and 30 Ninjas on the I/O 2026 Dialogues stage (2026-05-22); guest on Google's Where the Internet Lives with Will Hatcher (2026-01-21). Hosts the Dialogues on Technology and Society YouTube series (Refik Anadol, 2023-11-29; Ami Vitale, 2024-03).
• Entered Hollywood's private AI governance track. Brought into Kennedy–Ruskin talks (running since Nov 2023) by Ruskin; co-convened the AFI summit 2026-08-15; attended the first Lumière Summit, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 2026-09-07 (Macron and Lee Jae-myung co-chairs; €1bn France–Korea screen pledge — Deadline) while colleagues showed Love, Rendered (Liz Garbus, prod. Aronofsky) at Telluride (Hoodline, 2026-09-06). Attendance at Lumière rests on her LinkedIn via search summary — FLAG until a primary lists her.
• Published a book — Collaborative Intelligence, MIT Press, 2024-12-17, co-edited with a Google Technology & Society colleague; two parts, eight case studies (healthcare, conservation, modern slavery, metaverse). An edited volume: her voice is the frame, not the chapters.
• Judged a prize her employer co-funds — Future Vision XPRIZE lists Google among its funders alongside Jed McCaleb, Salesforce, ARK Invest / Cathie Wood and the Roddenberry Foundation (futurevisionxprize.com). v1 flagged the Build-with-Gemini prize; it missed that Google is behind the one she judged.
• Stayed inside the large companies — carried from v1, still true, and now with a title step up (Senior Director → VP, 2025).
• Quiet on Microsoft. No fetched primary has her commenting on the 2023 dissolution of her former team.

Feels

Carried: someone uncomfortable with the corporate form and working inside it anyway — "the natural instinct of the creative soul is to resist … the attempt to place one in a specific mold" (miralane.com). Added: a visible wish to be on the hope side of the AI story after years on the harms side; the irritation is with dystopia, not with the companies.

Hears

Product teams under shipping pressure, leadership managing reputation, and an outside community that regards in-house ethics as capture — carried. In 2025–26 the feed is Hollywood: Aronofsky, Kennedy, Ruskin, Liman, Garbus, the AFI and the guild tables; plus Manyika's Research/Labs orbit and DeepMind's research team. Almost nobody in that feed is neutral about Google's money.

Sees

Carried: the human on the other side of the interface, and the gap between what a system optimizes and what a person needs. New vantage: she has watched one Big Tech ethics function die from the inside and one Big Tech creative lab grow from a one-page pitch to a global team — few people have both data points. Blind spot unchanged: structural power; prototypes persuade when incentives permit.

Incentive map

Re-derived this cycle (incentive map decays like a title). She is a Google VP whose lab's outputs are Google's generative products in the hands of celebrated artists, and whose 2025–26 public program is literally titled around making AI narratives less dystopian (LA Times headline, 2025-05-28: "Inside Google's plan to have Hollywood make AI look less doomsday"). She sells: Flow, Veo, Music AI Sandbox as artist-first tools; Google as Hollywood's responsible partner; hopeful AI futures. Cannot say: that a shipped Google product harms creators; that her team was overruled; that in-house ethics has a ceiling — with the Microsoft dissolution now on record, the third silence is the loudest. Seats: judge on a Google-co-funded prize; co-convener of the body writing Hollywood's AI copyright norms, representing the one company in the room selling the generative tools those norms will classify. Cross-persona ties: Wood/ARK co-fund Future Vision; Diamandis runs it; Teller and Kilpatrick are Alphabet — the Moonshots bill's Google concentration v1 logged still stands and now includes the prize she judged. Hassabis is the DeepMind side of her Aronofsky partnership. Discount: moderate-to-high on anything about Google's creative tools or Hollywood's AI mood; low on her design-method claims, which predate Google and cost her nothing.

Theories aligned with

• Responsible AI / applied technology ethics — the field she helped institutionalize at Microsoft; carried, now historical rather than current practice
• Human-centred design and human-factors traditions — carried, live (TWIML 2019 → NYFW tools 2026)
• Art-as-inquiry — carried; now book-length
• Speculative design / design fiction — carried; Alternative Images of AI and AI on Screen are design fiction at exhibition and film scale
• Humanist AI / techno-humanism — technology judged by what it does to people; her "coexist" vocabulary sits here
• Adjacent to techno-optimism — the narrative-correction variant: fix the story, and the appetite for the technology follows

What she's reacting against

• Dystopia-only futurism — promoted from "implied" to her loudest stated target (2025-04-10, 2025-05-28, Future Vision 2026)
• Technology built without a picture of the person using it — carried; "decisions that weren't really intentional" (2025-07-27)
• Corporate standardization of people — carried
• The separation of art from engineering as professional castes — carried
• Ethics as compliance — carried from v1 as her Microsoft-era target; no 2024–26 primary restates it. Logged "not restated since 2021" (Chalmers rule).
• NEW: creators as passive recipients of AI — "build from within" rather than have it "happening to them" (The Ankler, 2026-08-20)

Where she overlaps / splits (with Rich)

• The closest professional analogue to Rich on the Moonshots bill — carried, and sharpened: design and human-factors thinking applied to AI inside an enterprise, with the job of asking what humans need before what the technology can do. AI × Design × Enterprise, held at Google and Microsoft. The new fact cuts both ways: she ran the experiment Rich's consulting offer rests on (does an in-house human-centred function change build decisions?) and the Microsoft half of her answer came back no.
• Overlaps on §02 Start with the Human Job-to-Be-Done and §14 Don't Make Me Think, arriving from the design tradition rather than the systems one. v1 cited "§17 Don't Make Me Think" and said the heading was empty on disk — §17 is Agent-Driven, Human-Shaped; Don't Make Me Think is §14 and has carried body text since 2026-09-05, the day v1 was written. Both corrected against _LIFE-PRINCIPLES.html.
• Overlaps on the sensing-and-feeling register — poetry, ceramics, nature, resistance to standardization; she treats it as method rather than a break from method. Carried.
• Directly relevant to the Intelligence-first design facet in the Ascend material — carried; her 2026 fashion-week post is a worked example of co-designing an AI tool inside an existing workflow.
• The useful question to ask her — carried and now answerable in part: what actually changes a build decision inside a large organization — a prototype, a diagnostic, or a budget line? Her record says: prototypes change what gets added; nothing in it shows them stopping anything. Ask her whether that matches her read.
• Splits on independence — carried; she works inside, Rich's exit thesis is about working outside. Her Microsoft chapter is the strongest available argument for Rich's side.
• Overlaps with Harris and Crawford on the diagnosis, splits on method — carried. Note Harris and Raskin were on the Telluride "AI AI AI" panel (2026-09-06) the same weekend Google's Love, Rendered screened there — outside and inside, same festival.
• Overlaps with Hassabis and Diamandis operationally (co-panelist; prize judge), splits with Wood on register (Wood funds the prize for market reasons; Lane judges it for narrative ones) — all three are commercial links, not intellectual ones.

Track record

• Verified this pass (dated): Mathematics and CS, Waterloo (miralane.com) · 18 years at Microsoft; Ethics & Society founded 2017, Partner Director (GeekWire 2023; Quihuis 2021; TWIML 2019) · departure announced Dec 2022 (LinkedIn activity id) · Senior Director, Technology & Society, Google, 2023 (GeekWire) · VP by 2025-05 (I/O speaker page; LA Times 2025-05-28) · Envisioning Studio founder (Google, 2026-06-03) · Collaborative Intelligence, MIT Press, 2024-12-17 · AI on Screen launch 2025-04-10, Sweetwater premiere 2025-09-17 · AFI summit co-convener 2026-08-15 · Future Vision judge, announced 2026-08-12, winner named 2026-09-25.
• Microsoft outcomes, now established: the team produced Judgment Call (DIS 2019; later in Microsoft's Responsible Innovation toolkit and the OECD.AI catalogue) and Harms Modeling — real, reusable artefacts. The function itself did not survive: ~30 → ~7 (Oct 2022) → 0 (2023-03-06). Credit the tools; grade the institution Wrong.
• Google outcomes: four named Studio outputs in 22 months (photography commission, music incubator, film program, fashion tools) plus a role expansion (Global Lead hired for international growth). Outputs are additive — tools and stories — with no public record of a restriction she caused.
• Pattern: strong at founding and framing (two functions, one book, one film program); the record goes quiet on confrontation — no public dissent from either employer in nine years of primaries.

Empirical vs normative

Overwhelmingly normative, and openly so — carried. Empirical, and now partly resolved: that prototyping changes decisions more than review does. Her record answers half of it: review (Microsoft) was dismantled; prototyping (Google) survives and grows — but what it changes is features and narratives, not go/no-go decisions. She does not dress values as data — carried; the risk now is the reverse, that a Google program designed to make AI "look less doomsday" is presented as neutral storytelling.

Weak spots / open questions

• Very little public position. Wrong — v1's own weak spot was a search failure (Teller/Tom Brown rule). She has a byline series on blog.google (2023-11 → 2025-09), a book, a podcast series she hosts, two I/O stage appearances, an AFI co-convener seat and quoted positions in the LA Times and The Ankler. Confidence raised to medium on that basis.
• The Microsoft chapter is unexamined. Resolved — see predictions. New open question: has she ever spoken about it? No primary found.
• In-house ethics has a structural ceiling and no incumbent can say where theirs is — carried, and now with a measured value for Microsoft (seven people, then zero).
• "Envisioning Studio" is undefined from outside. Resolved by Google's own definition (2026-06-03): an AI innovation prototyping lab co-creating tools with artists. The ethics reading was ours.
• No traceable shipped decision — partly resolved (Flow tools, Sandbox); the brake-shaped half stays open.
• NEW: budget and scale of AI on Screen undisclosed; two shorts in 18 months is a small program for a company Google's size unless the features land.
• NEW: who Paulose reports to — if the Global Lead sits beside her rather than under her, the Studio has been split; no primary says.
• NEW: Lumière attendance and the "point person on Hollywood" phrase both rest on search summaries of LinkedIn/Fast Company, not fetched primaries — FLAG.

Rich's take

• (your synthesis here)

Delta log

2026-10-03 — validation + v2 clean-up (bulk run; meta repaired)

• Grades on v1's items: 5 Held / 2 Drifted / 3 Wrong (6 Key claims + 3 implicit predictions + 1 v1 weak spot graded as a claim) — plus 2 new live checks added, 1 new claim flagged unattributed.
• Wrong: "an internal ethics function can constrain a frontier lab" — Microsoft Ethics & Society ~30 → ~7 → eliminated 2023-03-06 (Platformer), three months after her December 2022 exit (LinkedIn activity id; GeekWire 2023). "Ethics belongs inside the product process via a prototyping studio" — bench inference; the Studio's mission is "co-creating AI tools with artists" (Google via Storyboard18, 2026-06-03; Business Insider, 2025-07-27). "Very little public position" — search failure (byline series, book, I/O stages, AFI).
• Drifted: harms-mitigation claim — frame moved from harms (2019–21) to hope (2025–26) with no retraction; "prototyping changes decisions" — met on features (2026-09-18; 2024-11-20), unmet on restraint.
• Held: standardization/creativity (miralane.com); human-factors foundation (TWIML 2019 → 2026); art=engineering (MIT Press 2024-12-17); optimism undersupplied (LA Times 2025-05-28; byline 2025-04-10); Technology & Society survives the 2026 cost cycle (live).
• Most surprising delta: the file's lowest-information persona had a 350-page MIT Press book, an 18-month Google film program under her byline, and a seat convening Hollywood's AI copyright framework — none in v1. And the "most revealing fact" v1 asked for was findable in a 2023 article: her ethics team was down to seven when she left and gone in three months.
• Role check: title in v1 (VP) correct; added the Senior Director → VP step (2025), Manyika above her, Paulose beside/below her (2026-06-03), Neil Parris as Google's other Hollywood face. Employer still exists; no job change since v1.
• Meta repaired: v1's discipline ("physician-engineer turned prize-designer"), connects-to ("post-labor-economics"), wake_triggers (Giga-XPRIZE, Fountain Life) and last-reviewed (2026-09-04, a day before the file existed) were Peter Diamandis's, pasted at bulk-create. All replaced from this file's own body.
• § check: §17 Don't Make Me Think → §14; §02 confirmed; the "empty heading" aside was stale on the day it was written.
• Incentive map re-derived: Google is a listed funder of the prize she judged (futurevisionxprize.com); AI on Screen's stated purpose is narrative correction; AFI/HGW seat added; cross-ties to Wood, Diamandis, Hassabis logged.
• Tier: quarterly, one more cycle — the AI on Screen 18-month window closes ~Oct 2026 and the HGW framework is six weeks old; both resolve by Q1 2027, then semiannual (institutional persona, monthly-ish public cadence, stable framing). Confidence medium-low → medium.

2026-09-05 — created

• New persona at v2 depth for Moonshots LIVE 2026-09-25 (Future Vision XPRIZE judge).
• Verified this pass: VP at Google's Envisioning Studio and founder of Ethics & Society at Microsoft, described as a practising artist (XPRIZE judges announcement); Waterloo maths/CS degree, Google Technology & Society role, art practice across poetry, ceramics, video, painting and monoprint, and her stated views on creativity inside corporations (miralane.com).
• Deliberately left thin: the predictions section. She does not make dated forecasts and manufacturing them would corrupt the file.
• Confidence set to medium-low — the lowest on this roster — because so little substantive position is public. This is a limitation of the source material, not a judgment on her.
• Framed the finding: she is the closest professional analogue to Rich on the entire bill — AI × Design × Enterprise, held from inside two of the largest companies in the world.
• Logged the Google concentration on the bill (Lane, Teller, Kilpatrick, plus a Google-sponsored prize).
• Open action: research what became of Microsoft's Ethics & Society function after her tenure.

Sources

• Her own bylines and site: miralane.com — About (undated; presstalks returns 404 as of 2026-10-03) · AI on Screen launch (2025-04-10) · Sweetwater premiere (2025-09-17) · Sounds of the future (2024-11-20) · Refik Anadol (2023-11-29) · Collaborative Intelligence, MIT Press (2024-12-17) · Google Scholar · X: @mira_lane (not fetched)
• Google on the Studio: NYFW Flow tools (2026-09-18) · Paulose Global Lead (2026-06-03) · Alternative Images of AI (2024-12-12) · Serpentine round-table (2024-03-13) · I/O 2025 Dialogues (2025-05-28) · I/O 2026 Dialogues (2026-05-22) · I/O 2025 speaker page · DeepMind–Primordial Soup (2025-05-20) · ANCESTRA (2025-06-13; credits DeepMind, not the Studio)
• Press: LA Times via Spokesman-Review (2025-05-28) · SiliconANGLE (2025-05-05) · Business Insider via Yahoo (2025-07-27) · The Ankler (2026-08-20) · AFI summit (2026-08-15) · Deadline — Lumière (2026-09) · Hoodline — Telluride (2026-09-06) · GeekWire Tech Moves (2023; 403 on fetch, read via summary) · Fast Company "How Google is working with Hollywood" (403; "point person" phrase via summary) · Deadline — Neil Parris, Cannes (2025-05; paywalled)
• Microsoft chapter: Platformer (2023-03) · TechCrunch (2023-03-13) · her departure post (Dec 2022; not fetched) · TWIML #233 transcript (2019-02-23) · Harms Modeling podcast (2021-01-05) · Judgment Call the Game, DIS 2019
• Prize: XPRIZE judges (2026-08-12) · futurevisionxprize.com (funders, winner 2026-09-25) · Comic Crusaders (2026-08-14) · Moonshots LIVE 2026
• Not fetched / flagged: LinkedIn profile (title dates 2023–2025 → 2025–, via summary) · SoftwareCurio (undated paraphrase)

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