James He

James He is the co-founder and CEO of Artificial Societies, an AI simulation startup based in the United Kingdom. Before launching the Y Combinator-backed company in October 2024, he worked as a machine learning engineer at Yonder, where he built the credit card startup's lending infrastructure. He previously studied computational social science at the University of Cambridge, ultimately declining a doctoral program offer to pursue commercial technology ventures. His academic and professional research includes authoring a seminal paper analyzing the interactions of 33,000 AI chatbots, and he notably simulated 1,000 venture capitalists to secure his firm's pre-seed funding. The platform now serves enterprise clients including Anthropic by modeling how specific professional groups react to information. His current focus centers on bridging behavioral science and machine learning to create predictive societal models for corporate decision-making.