Gus Lott (He/Him)

Gus Lott teaches AI, programming, robotics, neuroscience, and the philosophy of science to grades 9–12 at Manlius Pebble Hill School (Syracuse, NY). Since 2023 he has built a humanistic-AI curriculum, “AI: A Human Perspective,” which is an elective that more than half of MPH’s Upper School has taken. The course uses AI as a mirror for examining the human condition, learning how the technology functions, and asks existential questions like: what is creativity, what is intelligence, can these systems be conscious, what do these bias-prone tools tell us about our present and how will they shape our future? Before MPH, Gus spent two decades in industry, as a neuroscientist, electrical engineer, and most recently as a Principal Research Scientist on Amazon’s Prime Air drone delivery program. Gus obtained a PhD in Biophysics from Cornell University and later completed a Master of Divinity at Austin Seminary. He lives in Fayetteville, NY with his wife and four sons and volunteers as an EMT with the Fayetteville Fire Department.