Andreas Hamberger

Andreas Hamberger is a New Zealand enterprise architect, AI governance specialist and author with more than 30 years in enterprise architecture, technology leadership and applied logic. His work addresses the accountability gap in artificial intelligence, from autonomous decision systems to AI in orbit, and the choice he frames as the Heaven Vector or the Skynet Vector.

His books include The Hallucination Economy, on why organisations buy, deploy and are audited against AI claims that no one can independently check, and how to build on evidence that can be checked; Space Mafia, a framework for accountable AI in space-based systems; Free As In Theft, a history of open source through to AI; Lethal By Design, on military AI and the crisis of human control; and The Manifesto of the Humanist Party, a practical guide to AI ethics.

He holds an MA in Philosophy (Logic and Theory of Science), is a long-standing TOGAF practitioner, a member of the IAPP, an Associate Member of the Institute of Directors New Zealand, and a member of the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA).