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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Adrian Weller
Alessandro Abate
Anca Dragan
Andrea Lincoln
Andrew Ilyas
Anqi Liu
Aran Nayebi
Arnob Ghosh
Aysajan Eziz
Bart Selman
Brad Knox
Clark Barrett
David Krueger
Dylan Hadfield-Menell
Elad Hazan
Eric Wong
Federico Faroldi
Florian Tramer
Freda Shi
Guanhong Tao
He He
Hong Zhu
Jacob Noah Steinhardt
Jaime Fernandez Fisac
Jindong Wang
José Hernández-Orallo
Karina Vold
Konstantinos Krampis
Laurence Aitchison
Maike Osborne
Max Tegmark
Michael Hippke
Michael Noetel
Michele Neitz
Muhao Chen
Niloofar Mireshghallah
Olle Häggström
Paolo Turrini
Patrick Shafto
Paul Matthew Salmon
Peter Vamplew
Philip Torr
Qian Tao
Reuth Mirsky
Richard Dazeley
Roger Grosse
Roman Yampolskiy
Samuel Albanie
Samuel Bowman
Scott Niekum
Serena Booth
Sharon Li
Steve Petersen
Stuart Russell
Tegan Maharaj
The Anh Han
Varun Chandrasekaran
Victor Veitch
Vincent Conitzer
Vincent Fortuin
Weiyan Shi
Yixin Wang
Zhijing Jin
AI Researchers
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Aashiq Muhamed
Abeer Sharma
Adeela Bashir
Adrià Garriga Alonso
Aidan Kierans
Aishwarya Gurung
Alan Chan
Alex Chan
Alex Turner
Alex Walsh
Allan Suresh
Amir-Hossein Karimi
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Posts from the community
If you are a member of our community and wish to submit a guest post, please contact us.
Here are some guest posts from members of our AI Existential Safety Community on the topics of their work:
The Impact of AI in Education: Navigating the Imminent Future
What must be considered to build a safe but effective future for AI in education, and for children to be safe online?
13 February, 2025
Can AI agents learn to be good?
AI agents are different from AI assistants because they can initiate actions independently. Here we discuss the safety concerns involved with AI agents and what we are doing to mitigate them.
29 August, 2024
How to join
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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.
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Our Position on AI
We oppose developing AI that poses large-scale risks to humanity, including via power concentration, and favor AI built to solve real human problems. We believe frontier AI is currently being developed in an unsafe and unaccountable manner.
Past Volunteers
In the past, we have had the support of a team of dedicated volunteers.