Megan Agathon is a founder and AI ethics leader with 12 years of experience and eight focused on AI/ML startups, currently building a user-sovereign values layer as Co-founder & CEO of daios in San Francisco. She blends operational rigor and product instincts from multiple COO roles with a deep philosophical background—dual master’s training in philosophy and a BA in philosophy and biomedical studies—that informs her work on model behavior and trust. Megan is developing Parrhesia, an open-source virtue ethics adapter to reduce sycophancy in LLMs by teaching frank honesty, and she writes accessible pieces for Palladium Magazine to bridge technical and public conversations. Known for favoring unorthodox solutions that push operational frontiers, she’s as comfortable with ethics theory as she is with shipping ethics-driven ML products.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Philosophy, Master’s Degree, Philosophy at Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy, Biomedical studies, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy, Biomedical studies at St. Olaf College
Master’s Degree, Philosophy, Master’s Degree, Philosophy at Jagiellonian University
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