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Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT who runs the Algorithmic Alignment Group at CSAIL, developing methods to align AI systems’ behavior with human goals and societal values across multi-agent systems, human–AI teams, and societal oversight of machine learning.

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Jason Matheny is president and chief executive officer of the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. Prior to becoming RAND’s president and CEO in July 2022, he led White House policy on technology and national security at the National Security Council and the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and previously served as founding director of Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology and as director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). He has received multiple awards for his work on emerging technologies and national security, including the National Intelligence Superior Service Medal and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Senior Advisor at Langsikt, where he works on artificial intelligence and emerging technologies. He holds a master’s and a PhD in sociology from the University of Cambridge and has recently worked as a researcher at SNF at the Norwegian School of Economics, focusing on how media and technology function in society, with particular interest in political economy, regulation, strategy and innovation.

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Vasil Georgiev is an independent AI safety researcher based in London, UK, focused on AI control and mechanistic interpretability. He participated in the MATS (ML Alignment Theory Scholars) program's Winter 2025 cohort and subsequently received funding to continue his AI control research as a MATS extension. He is a co-author of "Ctrl-Z: Controlling AI Agents via Resampling" (arXiv 2504.10374, 2025), which presents the first control evaluation in an agent environment using BashBench, a dataset of 257 system administration tasks designed to test whether safety protocols can prevent adversarial AI agents from executing malicious code. He is also a co-author of "Evidence of Learned Look-Ahead in a Chess-Playing Neural Network" (NeurIPS 2024), where he ran exploratory experiments and first identified a key attention head mechanism in Leela Chess Zero. Prior to his AI safety work, he had a software and game development career at Sports Interactive, King, Bloomberg LP, Meta, and ElevenLabs. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering from Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" (2010-2015).

Mohammad Aflah Khan is a research software engineer at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) and an open-source contributor at EleutherAI. His work focuses on natural language processing, deep learning, and large language models for social good, including contributions to projects such as Pythia, Multilingual Natural Instructions, and benchmarks for advanced reasoning and hate-speech detection.([blog.eleuther.ai](https://blog.eleuther.ai/contributor-spotlight-1/))

Pseudonymous YouTuber and AI research scientist with a PhD in computer security from an Ivy League institution, creating weekly videos about the philosophy of artificial intelligence, future technology, and how technological advancements affect society, with an emphasis on accessibility and adapting to a chronic health condition.

Guillaume Corlouer is an independent AI safety researcher based in Brighton, England. He holds a PhD from the University of Sussex (Sackler Center for Consciousness Science), where he studied information flow in ECoG time series during visual perception under the supervision of Lionel Barnett and Anil Seth, with prior training in mathematics at the University of Paris-Sud. His AI safety work centers on mechanistic interpretability, applying information-theoretic and complex-systems methods to discover latent variables from neural network activations. He was a fellow in the 2023 PIBBSS program, investigating stochastic gradient descent on singular models in the context of Singular Learning Theory, and subsequently a PIBBSS research affiliate, during which he co-authored an information-theoretic study of lying in LLMs presented at the ICML 2024 Workshop on LLMs and Cognition. He also participated in AI Safety Camp 8 (2023), where his team produced the paper "Linearly Structured World Representations in Maze-Solving Transformers," demonstrating that transformers trained on maze-solving learn linear representations of maze structure.

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Data scientist with a BSc in Cognitive Science, an MSc in Computer Science, and a PhD in player modeling in video games, with past research at the MIT Media Lab and the European Space Agency; currently a Member of Technical Staff at AI Digest working on the AI Village and related projects.

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Andrew Gritsevskiy is an AI safety researcher and entrepreneur based in San Francisco, California. He co-founded Contramont Research, a nonprofit AI safety lab focused on cryptographic model organisms and understanding where safety and security methods break, and co-founded Cavendish Labs, a Vermont-based research institute addressing AI safety and pandemic prevention. He was a PhD student in computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before leaving to co-found RunRL (Y Combinator Spring 2025), a reinforcement learning platform. He participated in the MATS (ML Alignment Theory Scholars) program and has been affiliated with FAR.AI. His most notable research contribution is the paper "Unelicitable Backdoors in Language Models via Cryptographic Transformer Circuits" (NeurIPS 2024), which demonstrated backdoors in transformer models that cannot be triggered or detected even with full white-box access, fundamentally challenging the efficacy of pre-deployment safety evaluations. He also won Third Prize in the Inverse Scaling Prize competition for work on prompt injection.

Liz Ibarra is the Co‑Working Space Manager at FAR.AI, responsible for workplace experience strategy and building the systems, culture, and environments that enable teams to thrive. She designs operational frameworks across events, space planning, and employee engagement to ensure smooth operations and a strong sense of community. Previously, she supported workplace experience programs at OpenAI and Google and serves as a Co‑Event Director for the Children’s Tumor Foundation, helping lead large‑scale fundraising events, volunteer operations, and donor engagement. She is pursuing an MBA focused on workplace leadership and organizational psychology.

Kavita Bhatia is Chief Operating Officer of the IndiaAI Mission and a senior official at the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, serving as Scientist G and Group Coordinator for AI and Emerging Technologies in the Government of India.

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Nikhil Mulani is an AI policy and technology researcher who completed an executive branch fellowship at the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, working on frontier AI policy and security. He has collaborated with the Centre for Long-Term Resilience on projects to inform UK AI regulation and international policy, and was a Winter Fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI, where he developed proposals for information-sharing between leading AI labs and the UK Office for AI. Before moving into policy, he spent over six years as a product manager building machine-learning software and as a consultant advising commercial and government clients on technology strategy. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a BA in Classics from Harvard University.

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Gergely Szucs is a mathematician who transitioned into AI safety research. He received his PhD in Mathematics from Stanford University in 2018, where his dissertation focused on the equivariant cobordism category under advisor Søren Galatius. After graduating he worked as a software engineer at Google before moving into AI alignment research. He spent approximately two years working with Vanessa Kosoy on the Learning Theoretic Agenda as part of ALTER-US, a project supporting learning-theoretic approaches to AI safety. His research focused on Infra-Bayesian approaches for mathematical AI safety, including work on infrabayesian physicalism. He co-organized a recorded lecture series on statistical learning theory for alignment researchers and prepared course materials for an AI safety workshop in summer 2024. He received a grant from the Long-Term Future Fund to develop an overview of the current state of AI alignment research and begin contributing to the field. As of mid-2025, he departed ALTER to pursue interests outside of mathematics and AI alignment.

Founder and Director at ICARE (International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics), Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Animal Rights Law (the first and only animal rights law open-access journal), PhD candidate in Global Animal Law and pre-doctoral researcher at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

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Julian Guidote is a Canadian law graduate and aspiring AI liability lawyer based in Quebec, Canada. He holds a B.A.Sc., BCL, and JD from McGill University, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional - Canada (CIPP/C). After nearly a decade supporting vulnerable communities, he pivoted toward tech law and AI governance, spending approximately eight months post-graduation upskilling in policy, privacy, and AI alignment. He has completed BlueDot Impact courses in AI Alignment, Transformative AI, and AI Governance, and has worked as a policy analyst for the Government of Canada. He received a Long-Term Future Fund grant with co-researcher Ben Chancey to research and publish a policy proposal on Mandatory AI Safety 'Red Bonds,' a novel regulatory mechanism for AI safety compliance. He has been active in EA circles, presenting on the intersection of law and effective altruism at the 2022 EAGT Unconference.

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AI Safety impact - research, education, coordination

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Rusheb Shah is a Research Engineer at Apollo Research, an AI safety organization focused on evaluating and auditing high-risk failure modes in frontier AI systems. He holds a Master's degree in Materials Science from the University of Oxford and completed the Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator (ARENA) program to transition into technical AI safety work. Before joining Apollo Research in December 2023, he briefly worked at OpenAI and previously held software engineering roles at R3, Brainlabs, and Amazon Web Services. His research at Apollo Research focuses on LLM evaluations, including co-authoring work on evaluations-based safety cases for AI scheming and research on scalable black-box jailbreaks via persona modulation. He also contributed to the mechanistic interpretability library TransformerLens by adding BERT support and won first prize at the ARENA Interpretability Hackathon for work on circuit discovery algorithms.

Researcher in AI and Infectious Diseases

Jeremy Gillen is an independent AI alignment researcher based in Berkeley, California, working primarily on agent foundations and the ontology identification problem. He holds an undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Neuroscience with a thesis on statistical learning theory. He participated in the SERI MATS (ML Alignment Theory Scholars Program) cohort 2 under mentor John Wentworth, where he co-authored "Finding Goals in the World Model" — a proposal for aligning model-based RL systems by identifying human values in a world model and using inverse reinforcement learning to guide the policy. Following MATS, he received a Long-Term Future Fund grant to continue independent research on alignment problems in model-based RL. He subsequently joined Vivek Chan's team at MIRI (Machine Intelligence Research Institute) before returning to independent research. His current work focuses on the ontology identification problem and related natural abstractions research, with recent co-authored work on condensation and natural latents. He is an active contributor to LessWrong and the AI Alignment Forum, and has participated in public debates on AI corrigibility.

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Petr Salaba is a documentary filmmaker and science communicator focused on AI alignment. His recent work includes Youtube video essays for the Dwarkesh Patel Podcast.

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James Norris is the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Existential Safety and the Founder and CEO of Upgradable and Survival Sanctuaries, with over 20 years of experience in social entrepreneurship, behavior change, and systems innovation. He has co-founded or helped build 27 organizations, including the international conference for the effective altruism movement.

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Samuel Hammond is director of Artificial Intelligence Policy and chief economist at the Foundation for American Innovation, where his research focuses on innovation policy, artificial intelligence, and the institutional impact of emerging technologies. He previously served as director of social policy at the Niskanen Center, worked as an economist for the Government of Canada, and was a graduate research fellow at the Mercatus Center.

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Bryce Hidysmith was previously a designer and strategist for the hedge fund Numerai and writes essays at hidysmith.com.

Executive Director of CEEALAR, where he is leading its evolution into a high-impact EA hub. He brings experience in R&D leadership at global organisations, the startup ecosystem, education, customer service and military service, and focuses on creating communities where talented people can do impactful work.