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Janet Adams

Janet Adams

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About Janet Adams

Janet Adams is the Chief Operating Officer of SingularityNET and a founding member of the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (ASI Alliance). She co-founded Zarka, SingularityNET's UAE-based spin-off focused on deploying neurosymbolic AI in the Middle East region.

Before entering the AI industry, Adams spent 20 years in banking technology, implementing robotic process automation and AI systems. This experience gives her a practical lens on enterprise AI deployment challenges—she's a published author on AI regulation in financial services and AI auditing.

Career Highlights

  • SingularityNET (present): Chief Operating Officer
  • Zarka (present): Co-founder and Co-CEO (with Sergey Shalyapin)
  • ASI Alliance: Founding member of coalition including Fetch.ai and Kudos
  • Banking Technology: 20 years implementing AI and RPA systems
  • Published author: AI regulation in financial services, AI auditing

Notable Positions

On LLM Limitations in Enterprise (2026)

Adams argues that large language models fundamentally cannot deliver ROI in high-stakes industries:

"In anything which is high stakes—finance, education, healthcare, aviation—the industries in which you can't afford to make a mistake cannot effectively deploy LLMs for any serious processing."

Her solution: neurosymbolic AI that can reason and explain itself in ways regulators can approve.

On AGI Ownership

Adams frames AGI development as a "winner takes all race" where ownership concentration poses existential risks:

"If that technology is owned by a very few privileged big tech companies or government powers, it will be the most intelligent, the most powerful technology ever invented."

SingularityNET's answer is decentralized, open-source development with community governance.

On Enterprise AI Failure

Drawing from her banking background, Adams highlights that enthusiasm doesn't equal results:

"I've seen many occurrences where AI teams got set up in a big flurry of enthusiasm and then they got shut down again because they're not delivering the ROI."

Key Quotes

  • "95% of the generative AI pilots show no measurable ROI." (citing MIT research)
  • "AI is increasing in power at 10x a year. In three years it's going to be a thousand times smarter than today."
  • "Web 4 is the web of AI—intelligent agents interacting with each other to do much of the work that humans currently do."
  • AGI - The artificial general intelligence goal SingularityNET pursues
  • Neurosymbolic AI - The hybrid approach Adams champions
  • Enterprise AI - The deployment challenges she addresses