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Our people

Meet the dedicated team that makes our work possible.

Our board

Meet the board

The people behind the mission and vision of the organisation.

Anthony Aguirre

President and CEO
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Jaan Tallinn

Member of Board of Directors
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Max Tegmark

Founder and Chair
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Meia Chita-Tegmark

Board Secretary
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Victoria Krakovna

Member of Board of Directors
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Our staff

Meet our staff

Our staff represents a diverse range of expertise, having worked in academia, for government and in industry. Their background range from machine learning to medicine and everything in between.

Executive Director

Anthony Aguirre

President and CEO
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Policy

Mark Brakel

Global Director of Policy
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Alexandra Tsalidis

State Engagement Specialist
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Ann Deer

UN Engagement Lead
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Anna Hehir

Head of Military AI Governance
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Dalia Hashad

Chief State Affairs Officer
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Eliška Andrš

Policy Researcher
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Hamza Chaudhry

AI and National Security Lead
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Imane Bello (Ima)

Multilateral Engagement Lead
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James Petrie

Compute Security and Governance Lead
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Jason Van Beek

Chief Government Affairs Officer
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José Jaime Villalobos

Multilateral Governance Lead
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Michael Kleinman

Head of U.S. Policy
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Richard Mallah

Principal AI Safety Strategist
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Risto Uuk

Head of European Policy and Research
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Sabina Nong

AI Safety Investigator
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Yannick Muehlhaeuser

Policy Researcher
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Futures

Emilia Javorsky MD, MPH

Director, Futures Program
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Anna Yelizarova

Special Projects Lead
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William Jones

Associate, Futures Program
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Communications

Ben Cumming

Communications Director
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Gus Docker

Podcast Host & Director
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Maggie Munro

Communications Strategist
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Taylor Jones

Design & Web Manager
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Operations & Grants

Ben Eisenpress

Director of Operations
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Andrea Berman

Grants Manager
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Josie Antona

Executive Assistant
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Lotte Gleeson

People Operations Lead
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Margaret Goyette

Head of Finance
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AI Safety Community

A community dedicated to ensuring AI is developed safely.

The way to ensure a better, safer future with AI is not to impede the development of this new technology but to accelerate our wisdom in handling it by supporting AI safety research.

Since it may take decades to complete this research it is prudent to start now. AI safety research prepares us better for the future by pre-emptively making AI beneficial to society and reducing its risks.

This mission motivates research across many disciplines, from economics and law to technical areas like verification, validity, security, and control. We’d love you to join!

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Past Volunteers

In the past, we have had the support of a team of dedicated volunteers.
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AI Existential Safety Community

We are building a community of AI researchers who want AI to be safe, ethical and beneficial.
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