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Miriam Haart (born January 25, 2000) is an American software engineer, technology entrepreneur, and public speaker. She is the co-founder and chief executive officer of ActionAI, an enterprise artificial intelligence company headquartered in Tel Aviv, with offices in New York City and Dubai. Haart is best known to general audiences as a cast member of the Netflix reality series My Unorthodox Life (2021–2022), which followed her mother, fashion entrepreneur Julia Haart, and their family in the years after leaving an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. In 2025, she delivered a TEDx talk at TEDxAndover on ideological thinking and cognitive freedom.
Early life
[edit]Miriam Haart was born on January 25, 2000, in Atlanta, Georgia.[1] She grew up in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Monsey, New York.[2] Her mother is Julia Haart, a fashion designer and entrepreneur. The family left the Haredi community in 2013.[3]
Haart has described her upbringing as one in which opportunities for girls were limited. At the age of 13, she began teaching herself programming using online video tutorials, using a computer that had belonged to her brother. Within months she had built a mobile application for fellow students, which was accepted into the App Store.[2] At 16, she moved to San Francisco, where she completed her secondary education two years ahead of schedule and subsequently worked as a software engineer in Silicon Valley.[2]
Education
[edit]Haart studied computer science at Stanford University, graduating with an undergraduate degree.[2][3] While still a student, she became a lecturer in Stanford's Computer Science Department at the age of 19, a position described by Jewish News as making her the youngest lecturer in that department's history.[2] She taught a course on virtual reality development.[4] Her studies included coursework in ethics in artificial intelligence.[4]
Career
[edit]Early career and app development
[edit]Before and during her time at Stanford, Haart developed more than ten iOS applications, some of which received awards.[5] She has described her motivation as a desire to build tools that empower women.[2] Following her undergraduate degree, she founded several businesses.[3] She also hosted a podcast called Faking It, focused on female empowerment.[4]
ActionAI
[edit]In 2025, Haart relocated to Israel. Shortly after arriving, she was approached by Shai Dekel, described by Jewish News as the former head of AI at website builder Wix, with the concept for what would become ActionAI.[2] The two co-founded the company, with Haart assuming the role of chief executive officer and Dekel serving as Head of Reliable Intelligence.[3]
ActionAI focuses on AI reliability infrastructure for enterprise use in high-stakes industries, including finance, insurance, manufacturing, legal services, and logistics.[6] The company's platform is designed to allow AI systems to operate transparently and with human oversight, including a mechanism called ExEx (Explainable Exceptions) that routes automated tasks to human reviewers when the system's confidence falls below a defined threshold.[4]
Among its early deployments, ActionAI implemented an AI-assisted verdict drafting system for the judicial court system of Ras al-Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates. According to ActionAI, the system reduced the time required to produce a verdict by an average of 240 hours and produced outcomes that were 10 per cent more accurate than manually produced verdicts, as measured by the company's own benchmarking.[3]
In April 2026, ActionAI announced a seed round of US$10 million, led by UAE-based investors.[6] At the time of the funding announcement, the majority of the company's customers were based in the UAE, with expansion into Europe planned.[2] The company is headquartered in Tel Aviv with offices in New York City and Dubai.[2]
Television
[edit]Haart appeared as a cast member in My Unorthodox Life, a Netflix reality series that premiered on 14 July 2021 and ran for two seasons, concluding on 2 December 2022, comprising 18 episodes in total.[7] The series followed Julia Haart and her children as they adjusted to secular life in New York City after leaving their Haredi community. Miriam Haart appeared in all 18 episodes across both seasons, credited as "Self – Julia's Daughter".[7] During the series, she spoke openly about her bisexuality.[2]
Public speaking and advocacy
[edit]In 2025, Haart delivered a TEDx talk titled "The SITT Test: Are You Really Thinking Freely?" at TEDxAndover.[8] The talk examined how societies develop ideological conformity, drawing on her experience of growing up within a strict religious community.[3]
Haart has spoken publicly on women in technology and LGBT rights. Following the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, she shifted a significant portion of her public activity toward combating antisemitism and advocating for Israel, work she has described as costing her social media partnerships and personal relationships.[9] She has led Birthright Israel trips and has supported initiatives aimed at bringing Arab and Jewish Israelis together in the technology sector.[9]
In January 2026, she spoke at the first American Innovation Forum in Jerusalem, hosted at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, alongside representatives from Amazon Web Services and Nvidia.[10]
Personal life
[edit]Haart is openly bisexual and has discussed her identity in published interviews.[2] She has described leaving an Orthodox upbringing as central to her path into technology.[3] She splits her time between the United States and Israel.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Miriam Haart — Biography". IMDb. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Krieger, Candice (26 March 2026). "Unorthodox ambition: from Netflix screens to building machines". Jewish News. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Jordan, Eliana (1 April 2026). "How Miriam Haart's life took another Unorthodox turn at a Tel Aviv AI startup". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 "Why Ethical AI Must Act, Not Just Talk: A Conversation With ActionAI CEO Miriam Haart". CloudTweaks. 24 February 2026. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
- 1 2 Villamor, Kay Aloha (20 April 2026). "ActionAI raises $10M seed to fix enterprise AI's trust problem and power reliable automation". TechStartups.com. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
- 1 2 "My Unorthodox Life — Full cast and crew". IMDb. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
- ↑ "The SITT Test: Are you really thinking freely? — Miriam Haart — TEDxAndover". TEDxAndover. 9 July 2025. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
- 1 2 "Julia and Miriam Haart: From reality TV to pro-Israel activism". The Jerusalem Post. 19 May 2025. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
- ↑ "High-tech professionals advise how to work in AI age". The Jerusalem Post. 20 January 2026. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
External links
[edit]- Miriam Haart at IMDb
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