Russ Wilcox

Russ Wilcox is a three-time Davos speaker, Policy Chairman of the American Society for AI, and the analyst behind The Pacific Divide. He has briefed the National Security Council, the State Department, the United States Senate, and the Massachusetts State House, and served as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations. He coined the doctrine of cognitive sovereignty. Please welcome Russ Wilcox.

Russ Wilcox is a three-time Davos speaker, delivering fourteen sessions across the 2026 meeting alone, and the Policy Chairman of the American Society for AI. He is the founder and CEO of ArtifexAI, a municipal intelligence company, and the author of The Pacific Divide, a strategic intelligence brief on Chinese AI read by government officials and corporate boards. He has briefed the National Security Council, the State Department, the United States Senate, and the Massachusetts State House, served as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations Civil Society Conference in Nairobi, and published in The Diplomat and the Jamestown Foundation's China Brief. His signature keynote, The Reconvergence Problem, argues the case for cognitive sovereignty. He is based in Boston.

Russ Wilcox began his career at sixteen with the U.S. Geological Survey, presented research to the American Geophysical Union at seventeen, and co-authored five peer-reviewed publications before twenty-two. He holds a degree in physics and an advanced reinforcement learning certification from MIT, with sixteen years building machine learning systems. Today he is a three-time Davos speaker, Policy Chairman of the American Society for AI, and founder and CEO of ArtifexAI, a municipal intelligence company. His strategic brief, The Pacific Divide, reads Chinese primary sources in the original and has repeatedly identified strategic moves well before mainstream analysis. The National Security Council called his work excellent and very relevant. A former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense called it brilliant. He has briefed the National Security Council, the State Department, the United States Senate, and the Massachusetts State House. He served as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations Civil Society Conference in Nairobi, has appeared as an expert witness on big data in federal and state courts, and has been featured three times in Forbes. His writing appears in The Diplomat and the Jamestown Foundation's China Brief. As a strategist, he architected the data and messaging system behind one of the first documented AI-driven election wins in the United States, a 2025 Massachusetts race his own model gave a newcomer 3.7 percent odds of winning outright. His signature argument, The Reconvergence Problem, names the century's central question and answers it with a doctrine he coined: cognitive sovereignty. His mission is keeping humanity at the center of intelligence.