Ariel Conn is the cofounder and president of TANGO Future (tangofuture.com), she heads the IEEE-SA Research Group on Issues of Autonomy and AI for Defense Systems, and is the founder of the nonprofit consultancy, Mag10 Consulting. Her work covers a range of issues, including autonomous weapons systems, AI safety, AI policy, nuclear weapons, climate change, and other global catastrophic risks. She also looks at how increasing diverse representation can improve how we address these issues.

She has given public statements on lethal autonomous weapons at the United Nations, and has been an invited speaker to events around the world to discuss AI, autonomous weapons, climate change, and risks associated with technology. Her work has been published in The Guardian, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, The Huffington Post, Metro UK, and more. Some of the groups she has worked with previously include the Future of Life Institute (FLI), the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Virginia Tech, the Idaho National Lab, the National Energy Technology Lab, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, astrology.com, and NASA.