Carson Kahn is an AI and machine learning leader at Salesforce AI. He was formerly the co-founder of Spindle AI, acquired in 2025 by Salesforce, where his portfolio has included self-optimization, simulation, continual learning, and recursive self-improvement (RSI) for Agentforce. Previously, Mr. Kahn served as President of Brainspace AI, a CIA-backed natural language forensics engine, acquired by Reveal in 2021. Acknowledged by OpenAI in its GPT-2 release paper, he also founded Volley ML, an early language modeling lab funded by Mark Zuckerberg, later In–Residence at JPMorgan. He currently sits on the Computing Advisory Board at the University of Colorado, and is an alumnus of the inaugural dy/dx residency program at Stanford University.