AI Existential Safety Community
We are building a community of AI researchers who want AI to be safe, ethical, and beneficial.
On this page you'll find a growing group of AI researchers keen to ensure that AI remains safe and beneficial, even if it eventually supercedes human ability on essentially all tasks.
Faculty members
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Adrià Garriga Alonso
Aidan Kierans
Aishwarya Gurung
Alan Alda
Alan Chan
Alan Guth
Alan Yan
Ales Flidr
Alessandro Abate
Alex Chan
Alex Turner
Alexander Pan
Alexander Tamas
Alexandra Tsalidis
Alina Kovtun
Allan Suresh
Amir-Hossein Karimi
Anca Dragan
Anca Dragan
Andrea Berman
Andy Zou
Anna Hehir
Anna Katariina Wisakanto
Anna Yelizarova
Annachiara Ruospo
Anqi Liu
Anthony Aguirre
Ariel Conn
Ariel Conn
Asilomar AI Principles
Astrid Caldas
Baobao Zhang
Bart Selman
Beatrice Fihn
Ben Cumming
Ben Eisenpress
Bena Lim Ying
Benjamin Smith
Bing Song
Bonnie Wintle
Brian Green
Carina Prunkl
Carla Zoe Cremer
Carlos Ignacio Gutierrez
Carolyn Wu
Caspar Oesterheld
Cassidy Nelson
Chad DeChant
Charlie Oliver
Charlie Steiner
Chase Moores
Christof Koch
Clark Barrett
Daniel R. Miller
Danit Gal
David E. Nicholson
David Krueger
David Lindner
David Stanley
Dr. Peter S. Park
Dylan Hadfield-Menell
Eleonora Giunchiglia
Elizabeth Barnes
Elon Musk
Emilia Javorsky MD, MPH
Eric Gastfriend
Erik Brynjolfsson
Erik Jenner
Erik Jones
Ethan Perez
European Union
Fazl Barez
Florian Tramer
Francesca Rossi
Francesca Rossi
Francis Rhys Ward
Frank Wilczek
George Church
Grzegorz Orwiński
Gus Docker
Hamza Chaudhry
Hanlin Zhang
Harriet Farlow
He He
Hong Zhu
Imane Bello (Ima)
Isabella Hampton
Jaan Tallinn
Jack Koch
Jacob Beebe
Jacob Noah Steinhardt
Jade Leung
Jaime Fernandez Fisac
Janos Kramar
Jason Orlosky
Jeanne Dietsch
Jesse Galef
Jessica Cussins Newman
Jody Williams
Johannes Treutlein
John Burden
Jonathan Cefalu
José Hernández-Orallo
Joseph Kwon
Kaylene Stocking
Kayo Yin
Kazue Evans
Kendrea Beers
Kevin Wang
Kirsten Gronlund
Kristina Dahl
Landon Klein
Lewis Hammond
Linas Marius Nasvytis
Liv Boeree
Lorenz Kuhn
Maggie Munro
Marie-Therese Png
Mark Brakel
Martin Rees
Mary Wareham
Matt MacDermott
Max Kesin
Max Tegmark
Max Tegmark
Meia Chita-Tegmark
Meia Chita-Tegmark
Melody Guan
Michael Cohen
Michael Hippke
Michael Osborne
Michele Campolo
Montaser Mohammedalamen
Morgan Freeman
Multilateral Organizations
Mykyta Baliesnyi
Na Li (Lina)
Natalie Jones
Neil Crawford
Nell Watson
Nick Bostrom
Nikolaus Howe
Nisan Stiennon
Olle Häggström
Pablo Antonio Moreno Casares
Paolo Bova
Patrick Shafto
Paul de Font-Reaulx
Paul Matthew Salmon
Paula Garcia
Peter Haas
Peter Vamplew
Pingchuan Ma
Rafael Martinez-Galarza
Rasha Abdul Rahim
Rebecca Boehm
Richard Dazeley
Richard Mallah
Risto Uuk
Roger Grosse
Roman Yampolskiy
Rose Hadshar
Rosie Campbell
Ryan Carey
Samuel Albanie
Samuel Bowman
Sandra Faber
Saul Perlmutter
Scott Emmons
Scott Niekum
Sharon Li
Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui
Shuchi Talati
Sonia Cassidy
Stephen Casper
Stephen Hawking
Steve Petersen
Stuart Russell
Stuart Russell
Sumeet Motwani
Susi Snyder
Szymon Radziszewicz
Taylor Jones
Tegan Maharaj
The Anh Han
Tim Schreier
Tucker Davey
United Nations
Usman Anwar
Vera Koroleva
Victor Veitch
Victoria Krakovna
Victoria Krakovna
Vincent Conitzer
Vincent Lê
William Jones
Wout Schellaert
Xiaohu Zhu
Xin Cynthia Chen
Yaodong Yu
Yawen Duan
Yishuai Du
Yixin Wang
Zara Yaqoob
Zhijing Jin
AI Researchers
Click on a profile to view more information:
Adrià Garriga Alonso
Aidan Kierans
Aishwarya Gurung
Alan Alda
Alan Chan
Alan Guth
Alan Yan
Ales Flidr
Alessandro Abate
Alex Chan
Alex Turner
Alexander Pan
Alexander Tamas
Alexandra Tsalidis
Alina Kovtun
Allan Suresh
Amir-Hossein Karimi
Anca Dragan
Anca Dragan
Andrea Berman
Andy Zou
Anna Hehir
Anna Katariina Wisakanto
Anna Yelizarova
Annachiara Ruospo
Anqi Liu
Anthony Aguirre
Ariel Conn
Ariel Conn
Asilomar AI Principles
Astrid Caldas
Baobao Zhang
Bart Selman
Beatrice Fihn
Ben Cumming
Ben Eisenpress
Bena Lim Ying
Benjamin Smith
Bing Song
Bonnie Wintle
Brian Green
Carina Prunkl
Carla Zoe Cremer
Carlos Ignacio Gutierrez
Carolyn Wu
Caspar Oesterheld
Cassidy Nelson
Chad DeChant
Charlie Oliver
Charlie Steiner
Chase Moores
Christof Koch
Clark Barrett
Daniel R. Miller
Danit Gal
David E. Nicholson
David Krueger
David Lindner
David Stanley
Dr. Peter S. Park
Dylan Hadfield-Menell
Eleonora Giunchiglia
Elizabeth Barnes
Elon Musk
Emilia Javorsky MD, MPH
Eric Gastfriend
Erik Brynjolfsson
Erik Jenner
Erik Jones
Ethan Perez
European Union
Fazl Barez
Florian Tramer
Francesca Rossi
Francesca Rossi
Francis Rhys Ward
Frank Wilczek
George Church
Grzegorz Orwiński
Gus Docker
Hamza Chaudhry
Hanlin Zhang
Harriet Farlow
He He
Hong Zhu
Imane Bello (Ima)
Isabella Hampton
Jaan Tallinn
Jack Koch
Jacob Beebe
Jacob Noah Steinhardt
Jade Leung
Jaime Fernandez Fisac
Janos Kramar
Jason Orlosky
Jeanne Dietsch
Jesse Galef
Jessica Cussins Newman
Jody Williams
Johannes Treutlein
John Burden
Jonathan Cefalu
José Hernández-Orallo
Joseph Kwon
Kaylene Stocking
Kayo Yin
Kazue Evans
Kendrea Beers
Kevin Wang
Kirsten Gronlund
Kristina Dahl
Landon Klein
Lewis Hammond
Linas Marius Nasvytis
Liv Boeree
Lorenz Kuhn
Maggie Munro
Marie-Therese Png
Mark Brakel
Martin Rees
Mary Wareham
Matt MacDermott
Max Kesin
Max Tegmark
Max Tegmark
Meia Chita-Tegmark
Meia Chita-Tegmark
Melody Guan
Michael Cohen
Michael Hippke
Michael Osborne
Michele Campolo
Montaser Mohammedalamen
Morgan Freeman
Multilateral Organizations
Mykyta Baliesnyi
Na Li (Lina)
Natalie Jones
Neil Crawford
Nell Watson
Nick Bostrom
Nikolaus Howe
Nisan Stiennon
Olle Häggström
Pablo Antonio Moreno Casares
Paolo Bova
Patrick Shafto
Paul de Font-Reaulx
Paul Matthew Salmon
Paula Garcia
Peter Haas
Peter Vamplew
Pingchuan Ma
Rafael Martinez-Galarza
Rasha Abdul Rahim
Rebecca Boehm
Richard Dazeley
Richard Mallah
Risto Uuk
Roger Grosse
Roman Yampolskiy
Rose Hadshar
Rosie Campbell
Ryan Carey
Samuel Albanie
Samuel Bowman
Sandra Faber
Saul Perlmutter
Scott Emmons
Scott Niekum
Sharon Li
Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui
Shuchi Talati
Sonia Cassidy
Stephen Casper
Stephen Hawking
Steve Petersen
Stuart Russell
Stuart Russell
Sumeet Motwani
Susi Snyder
Szymon Radziszewicz
Taylor Jones
Tegan Maharaj
The Anh Han
Tim Schreier
Tucker Davey
United Nations
Usman Anwar
Vera Koroleva
Victor Veitch
Victoria Krakovna
Victoria Krakovna
Vincent Conitzer
Vincent Lê
William Jones
Wout Schellaert
Xiaohu Zhu
Xin Cynthia Chen
Yaodong Yu
Yawen Duan
Yishuai Du
Yixin Wang
Zara Yaqoob
Zhijing Jin
How to join
Join the community
Vitalik Buterin Fellowships
If you're considering applying for the Vitalik Buterin postdoctoral fellowships or PhD fellowships, please use this page as a resource for finding a faculty mentor. All awarded fellows receive automatic community membership.
AI Professors
If you're a professor interested in free funding for grad students or postdocs working on AI existential safety, you can apply for community membership here.
AI Researchers
If you're a researcher working on AI existential safety, you're also welcome to apply for membership here, to showcase your research areas, apply for travel support, and get invited to our workshops and networking events.
Related pages
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Past Volunteers
In the past, we have had the support of a team of dedicated volunteers.
FLI Open Letters
We believe that scientists need to make their voices heard when it comes to matters of emerging technologies and their risks. The Future of Life Institute has facilitated this dialogue in the form of many open letters throughout the years.