The AI Pioneer Who Chose Purpose Over Profit: Jim Fruchterman on Why Big Tech Can’t Be Trusted with Our Future – Keen on America

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Andrew Keen interviews Jim Fruchterman, October 02, 2025

Thirty five years ago, when his investors vetoed a reading machine for the blind because the market was only $1 million annually, Fruchterman walked away from his $25 million-funded AI company to start his first nonprofit. Today, he’s still on the front line of the battle to show that technology’s greatest potential lies not in making billionaires richer, but in serving the 90% of humanity that big tech conveniently ignores.

Find the full interview on the Keen on America website.