Came from rural Pakistan to Brooklyn in 1998. Now he teaches organisations to use AI.
About
Haroon Choudery is CEO of AI Ready, based in New York. He co-founded Autoblocks AI, where he has served as Co-Founder and CEO since March 2023, working on GenAI user experiences through a collaborative cloud-based workspace. In 2017 he started the AI literacy nonprofit AI for Anyone with his brother Hamza and friend Mac McMahon, funding it with $5,000 of their own money to educate people whose livelihoods might be affected by artificial intelligence. He also founded the AI newsletter Not A Bot and hosts the weekly AI Ready podcast, launched in August 2025, on AI adoption inside organisations. He won a Gates Millennium scholarship in 2011 and took a master's in information and data science at UC Berkeley.