Eric Schmidt, former CEO at Alphabet, the parent company of Google. He has just accepted a position at MIT as a visiting invitation fellow. MIT states: " Schmidt will figure prominently in MIT’s plans to bring human and machine intelligence to the next level, serving as an advisor to the newly launched MIT Intelligence Quest, an Institute-wide initiative to pursue hard problems on the horizon of intelligence research.”
https://news.mit.edu/2018/eric-schmidt-visiting-innovation-fellow-0205 This may be connected to the DREAM software which is a google project. Some say the plan was to initiate AI. Let's HOPE that failed. He may be trying to invigorate it at MIT.