Aaron Bergman is an early-career researcher and writer active in the effective altruism community. He graduated from Georgetown University in December 2021 with degrees in economics and mathematics and a philosophy minor, where he founded and helped lead Georgetown Effective Altruism. He has interned at the Department of the Interior, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Nonlinear, an EA-aligned incubator and research organization. Bergman is the creator of the EA Archive, a project to preserve EA and alignment resources against potential data loss from catastrophic events. He won a $1,000 prize in the Essays on Longtermism competition for an essay arguing that some extreme suffering is morally non-offsetable under standard utilitarian frameworks. He writes on philosophy, economics, and EA topics at his Substack blog and is active on the EA Forum and LessWrong under the handle aaronb50. He has received funding from the Long-Term Future Fund for research on EA and longtermism.

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Special Projects Manager at the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative since February 2025. She also works in web and data at Duke University, previously managed educational programs at the Institute for Defense & Business and the Warrior-Scholar Project, and holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of North Carolina, where she was a Chancellor’s Fellow.

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Systems architect for technological sovereignty, designing frontier R&D programs at the intersection of materials science, synthetic biology, and AI to help states and institutions turn high-uncertainty science into sovereign capabilities.

Head of Events at the Safe AI Forum (SAIF). Previously served as Events Producer for The Alan Turing Institute and has held positions with the Australian High Commission in London, the Edinburgh International Culture Summit, Georgetown University, and the British Film Institute, specializing in complex multi‑partner events that tackle global challenges.

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A 501(c)(3) nonpartisan think tank that bridges technology and national security policy, with major programs addressing ransomware, frontier AI security, and the catastrophic risks posed by emerging technologies to nuclear stability.

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A nonprofit R&D lab that develops collective intelligence tools and governance models to steer transformative AI development toward better outcomes through democratic public input.

Florian Dietz is an artificial intelligence researcher and data scientist pursuing a PhD in AI at Saarland University's Spoken Language Systems group. Before starting his doctorate, he worked as a consultant and freelance data scientist and built a startup based on an AI system designed to automate software and data science tasks.

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Drew Spartz is Head of the Incubation Program at Nonlinear. He previously founded Superlinear, an AI safety bounty platform, the Nonlinear Network funding platform, and a digital media company, and has also helped manage a family office. The team bio notes that he is an avid reader and traveler who has visited more than 50 countries.

Princeton University is a leading Ivy League research institution that conducts significant AI safety and AI governance research through several interdisciplinary centers and initiatives.

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Patrick Stadler works on shaping a safe and flourishing future at the Swiss think tank Pour Demain. He co-founded and chairs the board of the GiveWell-recommended nonprofit New Incentives, which he helped scale to over 100,000 users for its vaccination program in Nigeria. Previously, he served as a political advisor for Switzerland’s economic development agency and worked on strategic communications for peacebuilding and mediation at the United Nations.

Pivotal Research runs a 9-week in-person research fellowship in London for early-career researchers working on AI safety, AI governance, and biosecurity. Fellows work alongside mentors from leading organizations to produce impactful research and launch careers in reducing global catastrophic risks.

AI and neurotech advisor to Lionheart Ventures and Chief Scientific Officer at the Flow Research Collective, where he applies deep learning and distributed machine learning to understanding and training optimal human performance.

Nova DasSarma is the financial director and co‑founder of Hofvarpnir Studios and a systems leader at Anthropic, where she works on large-scale training and infrastructure. Her background includes systems administration at the NIH, engineering roles at several Y Combinator startups, and a BS in Information Systems from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

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generative.ink is the personal research and creative platform of Janus (also known as "moire" and "@repligate"), a pseudonymous AI safety researcher known for the Simulators framework and the Loom human-AI collaboration tool.

Senior Research Scientist at the Transformative Futures Institute and principal investigator on a Foresight Institute–funded AI safety project developing computational tools to analyze complex multi‑agent AI scenarios.

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AI safety researcher and neuroscientist who serves as Director of Research at the Flourishing Future Foundation and as a research director / principal researcher in AI safety at AE Studio, with prior academic work on multilayer brain networks and recent papers on language-model deception, self-modeling, and self–other overlap for honest AI systems.

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Milos Borenovic is Chief Product Officer and Partnerships Lead at Lucid Computing, with a PhD in electrical engineering and an unconventional path into AI safety that includes twenty years of volunteer mountain rescue work and a prior career in fintech.

Ian David Moss is the CEO and founder of the Effective Institutions Project, where he helps donors and institutional leaders make higher-impact decisions on major global challenges. He has more than two decades of experience advising grantmaking foundations and philanthropic families, and his work has helped guide over $250 million in grants and other spending to improve people’s lives worldwide.

Matthias Dellago is a machine learning researcher who describes himself as a former physicist now focused on the science of deep learning, learning theory, and optimization. He received a Long-Term Future Fund stipend in October 2023 to support his master's thesis and an accompanying paper on mechanistic interpretability of attention mechanisms, with plans to publish on arXiv and release a tool for other researchers. His GitHub projects include a fork of TransformerLens and a project visualizing self-attention as a vector field, both consistent with his focus on mech interp of attention. He holds the title of Guest Researcher (likely at the University of Innsbruck based on online sources) and is active on LessWrong and the Alignment Forum under the handle matthias-dellago.

Kyle Fish is the Model Welfare Lead at Anthropic, where he joined in September 2024 as the company's first dedicated AI welfare researcher. His work focuses on assessing whether frontier AI systems like Claude might have conscious experiences and deserve moral consideration, including running systematic welfare assessments and self-interaction experiments on AI models. Before joining Anthropic, he co-founded Eleos AI Research and co-authored the report "Taking AI Welfare Seriously" alongside philosopher David Chalmers. His earlier career spanned biosecurity work at Telis Bioscience and Alvea (a COVID vaccine startup he co-founded), cellular agriculture research at Tufts and Mission Barns, global health work at Medical Teams International, and pandemic preparedness research at Blueprint Biosecurity focused on far-UVC technology. He was named to the TIME 100 Most Influential People in AI in 2025 and is also a mentor in the MATS (ML Alignment Theory Scholars) program.

Derek Shiller is a Senior Researcher at Rethink Priorities on the Worldview Investigations team, where he works on applied philosophy and artificial cognition. He holds a PhD in philosophy and has written on topics in metaethics, consciousness, and the philosophy of probability. Before joining Rethink Priorities, he served as the lead web developer for The Humane League. His research focuses on digital consciousness, functionalism in the philosophy of mind, AI welfare, and moral uncertainty frameworks; key publications include "Functionalism, integrity, and digital consciousness" (Synthese, 2024), "Bomb threats for functionalists" (Erkenntnis, 2025), and "Initial Results of the Digital Consciousness Model" (arXiv, 2025). He received early grant support to work part time on an academic project evaluating factors relevant to digital consciousness, work that has since expanded into a major research program at Rethink Priorities. He is based in New York City.

AI and longevity researcher, Scientist at RaDVaC working on open-source AI for antiviral drug discovery, founder of The Metascience Observatory, and former Foresight Institute AI Fellow with a PhD in physics.

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Paul Bricman is a Romanian AI safety researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded Straumli AI (later Noema Research), where he serves as CEO. His work focuses on AI safety infrastructure — developing cryptographic and technical tools to help developers, auditors, and regulators coordinate AI oversight, including protocols for benchmarking dangerous capabilities, latent differential privacy, and model tamper-resistance. He led the Interdisciplinary Investigation of DebateGPT project at AI Safety Camp Virtual 2023, training language models to debate via reinforcement learning self-play as an approach to AI alignment. He received a Long-Term Future Fund grant (stipend and compute) to conduct research on AI safety via debate in the context of LLMs. In May 2024, Open Philanthropy recommended a $400,000 grant to Straumli to develop a benchmark for the cyberoffense capabilities of LLM agents. He studied at the University of Groningen and previously co-authored deep learning research with Radu Tudor Ionescu at the University of Bucharest.

David Kasten is Head of Policy at Palisade Research, based in Washington, DC. According to his professional profile, he previously worked as an independent consultant (primarily for ControlAI), managed cyber and data risk projects at McKinsey & Company, and held leadership roles at initiatives such as VaccinateCA.

Developer working on the Soloware Platform, a tool for sharing and coordinating views on text within the Live Theory interface ecosystem at Groundless.

David Goldberg is Founder and President of Founders Pledge and a Partner at Pledge Ventures. He moved into the nonprofit sector after a varied career across finance, startups, and academia, including roles at Mortgage Capital Associates and CS Financial, founding and running a real estate business in Germany, and serving as general manager of Urban Motion. He holds degrees from UCLA and the University of Cambridge.

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Ajay Mandyam Rangarajan is a researcher at Apart Research and at RWTH Aachen University, working on machine learning methods and physics-informed neural networks after earlier training in fluid dynamics and computational sciences.

Shakeel Hashim is grants director and a permanent journalist-in-residence at the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. He previously worked as head of communications at the Centre for Effective Altruism and co-founded the AI Safety Communications Centre, a project connecting journalists to AI safety experts and resources.