Risto Uuk is the EU Research Lead at at FLI, spearheading research efforts on EU AI policy to maximize the societal benefits of increasingly powerful AI systems. He is also a PhD Researcher at KU Leuven, where he researches the assessment and mitigation of systemic risks posed by general-purpose AI. Finally, he runs the biweekly EU AI Act Newsletter with over 30,000 subscribers, and has set up a website that is one of the top hits if you search for the AI Act.

Previously, he worked for the World Economic Forum on a project about positive AI economic futures together with Stuart Russell, Daniel Susskind and others, and did research for the European Commission on trustworthy AI. He completed a master’s degree in Philosophy and Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has a bachelor’s degree from Tallinn University in Estonia.