David Staley received a small grant from the Long-Term Future Fund to maintain a copy of the alignment research dataset in the Arctic World Archive for five years. The Arctic World Archive is a long-term data preservation facility located in a decommissioned coal mine in Svalbard, Norway, designed to store digital data for centuries using ultra-durable piqlFilm. Beyond this grant, no further public information about David Staley's background, affiliations, or other work in AI safety or related fields was found.

Research Director at the Golden Gate Institute for AI and a board member at QURI. She previously served as a U.S. diplomat, founded DC Abundance, is an Emergent Ventures grantee, and writes the Positive Sum Substack on institutions, innovation, and governance.

Sjir is the CEO of Giving What We Can, a role he has held since November 2024. He first joined GWWC in August 2022 as Director of Research, where he established the organisation’s impact evaluation and “evaluating evaluators” workstreams. Previously he was a Senior Researcher at Founders Pledge and earlier supported Dutch municipalities in running experiments with elements of a universal basic income. He co‑founded and serves on the board of Effective Altruism Netherlands and is a founding member of the management committee of the Patient Philanthropy Fund.

Lucius Bushnaq is an AI safety researcher specializing in mechanistic interpretability, currently a researcher at Goodfire AI. He holds a PhD in mathematics from Trinity College Dublin (2020-2023) and an MS in physics from RWTH Aachen. He co-founded Apollo Research, where he led interpretability work including the Local Interaction Basis method and degeneracy-based approaches to mechanistic interpretability. His research trajectory began with work on selection theorems for modularity in neural networks, conducted through AI Safety Camp under the mentorship of John Wentworth, which was supported by Long-Term Future Fund grants. He has published papers on parameter decomposition, LLM modularity, and identifying computationally relevant sparse features in neural networks.

Founder of Frame Fellowship and Explainable (Explainable Media), working on AI safety media infrastructure and field‑building from San Francisco, California.

Oliver Klingefjord is a researcher at the Meaning Alignment Institute, which he co-founded in 2023 with early support from OpenAI. His work focuses on aligning AI and institutions with what people actually value—a problem the team calls full-stack alignment—and he previously worked on AI-assisted democracy at the AI Objectives Institute and co-founded the startup Potential.

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Evan Knight is the founder of Thoughtful Content and serves as an advisor to Good Impressions, drawing on entrepreneurial and operational experience from co-founding and serving as COO of the marketing analytics firm RightMetric and advising companies such as Casting Workbook and Kinzoo Technologies. He has a background in digital marketing, e-commerce, and operations and holds a commerce degree from the University of Calgary.

Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, where he leads the AI Verification Group, and head of Zeroth Research; his work bridges formal methods and AI to develop verification techniques for the safety assurance of software, cyber-physical, and deep learning systems.

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AI policy researcher and AI risk analyst at ORCG, specializing in international security and technology governance, with prior research roles at OpenAI and Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology.

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Import AI is a weekly newsletter by Jack Clark (co-founder of Anthropic) covering cutting-edge AI research and its societal implications, read by over 116,000 subscribers.

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Associate Professor of Computer Science and Systems & Information Engineering at the University of Virginia and member of the Link Lab whose research focuses on runtime safety and trust for embodied AI systems, developing architectural and algorithmic foundations for safe, adaptive human–AI collaboration in domains such as autonomous driving, robotics, healthcare and smart infrastructure.

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Volunteer researcher at the Existential Risk Observatory and postdoctoral mathematician at Utrecht University, interested in AI as well as science and education policy.

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Kairos is a US nonprofit that accelerates talent into AI safety and policy by running university group support programs and research mentorship fellowships.

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Dr. Merve Ayyüce Kızrak is an AI specialist with over 15 years of experience in artificial intelligence, specialising in computer vision, AI governance, and AI safety. She holds a PhD in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Yıldız Technical University and a master’s in Economics and FinTech from Bahçeşehir University, and works as an AI Specialist in the Presidency of Türkiye’s Digital Transformation Office, where she leads data‑governance projects and contributes to the national AI strategy.

Zohreh Shams is a research manager at MATS London and an affiliated lecturer at the University of Cambridge whose research focuses on interpretability and its applications to knowledge discovery. The MATS London profile notes that she previously served as CSO at Leap Laboratories, a spin-out of MATS, where she led research.

Boston Nyer is a co‑founder and fractional COO of Juniper Ventures and an operator focused on AI and global health, with prior leadership roles at FAR.AI, GiveWell, Equalize Health, Momentum and clean‑cookstove company BURN Manufacturing.

David Williams-King is an AI safety researcher and communicator based in Montreal, Canada. He holds a PhD in Computer Science (Systems & Security) from Columbia University (2014-2020), where his research focused on binary security and code randomization. After graduating, he co-founded and served as CTO of Elpha Secure, a cybersecurity insurance startup, leading a team of 15-20 engineers. He transitioned into AI safety work and currently conducts research at Mila (Quebec AI Institute) as part of Yoshua Bengio's Safe AI for Humanity initiative, and serves as a Research Manager for Technical AI Safety at ERA Cambridge (ERA Fellowship). He also works with LawZero, an AI safety organization. His research examines LLM safety, jailbreaks, and guardrails, drawing lessons from cybersecurity history, and he has co-authored papers including "Can Safety Fine-Tuning Be More Principled? Lessons Learned from Cybersecurity" and "Superintelligent Agents Pose Catastrophic Risks: Can Scientist AI Offer a Safer Path?" with Yoshua Bengio and others. He also runs a YouTube channel with over 30,000 subscribers focused on AI safety and how AI will impact society, and received an LTFF grant to support this work.

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Doom Debates is a podcast and debate show hosted by Liron Shapira focused on high-stakes debates about AI existential risk. Its mission is to raise mainstream awareness of potential extinction from AGI and build social infrastructure for high-quality public discourse on the topic.

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Pablo Stafforini is the director of Tlön, a nonprofit organization that translates content related to effective altruism, existential risk, and global priorities research into multiple languages. He has been involved in the effective altruism community since its early days, having met Will MacAskill and Toby Ord as a philosophy student at the University of Oxford, where he studied under Krister Bykvist. He served as a research assistant to Will MacAskill and contributed substantially to the background research for the book Doing Good Better. He created, edited, and wrote most of the content for the Effective Altruism Wiki, which connects directly to his grant for writing preliminary content for an encyclopedia of effective altruism. He is also a member of the Samotsvety superforecasting group and co-hosts the Spanish-language podcast La bisagra de la historia. After years of nomadic living, he returned to his native Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Roman Leventov is an independent researcher, blogger, and philosopher focused on intelligence and agency, with particular emphasis on Active Inference, AI alignment, ethics, and collective decision-making systems. He holds a technical background in software engineering from Bauman Moscow State Technical University in Moscow and has contributed to high-performance open-source systems including Apache Druid. He has worked as a software engineer at companies including Metamarkets and Pocketdata.AI, and runs the "Engineering Ideas" Substack covering systems engineering, AI, and philosophy of agency. His AI safety research examines goal misgeneralisation through the lens of Active Inference and the development of collective sense-making architectures. He is a founding member of the Gaia Consortium, a project aimed at building a global decentralized system for collective decision-making and civilisational intelligence. He received a grant from the Long-Term Future Fund to support six months of independent research on goal misgeneralisation from an Active Inference perspective and collective decision-making systems.

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Part-time Program Manager at the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative since July 2025, overseeing new program development. He is a consultant, program manager, and community builder with a background in workforce and economic development, and a trained engineer who has worked in the aerospace and manufacturing industry.

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Nikos Bosse is a research engineer at FutureSearch. He holds a PhD in Statistics from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and an MD from the University of Göttingen, and previously worked on research strategy at Metaculus while completing his medical and doctoral training in infectious disease forecasting and forecast evaluation.

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Yordanos Asmare is the Head of People at FAR.AI, where she leads and manages people operations, including recruitment, culture, and employee experience. She has deep experience building and scaling organizations, running operations, and developing communities and partnerships, and she specializes in creating high‑performance, inclusive, and impactful teams and cultures. Yordanos holds a BA in English Literature with a focus in Sociology of Education from Stanford University.

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Zach Graves is president and CEO of the Foundation for American Innovation and an ex officio member of its board. Previously head of policy at FAI, he has led work at the intersection of technology and governance, after earlier roles directing technology and innovation policy at the R Street Institute and working at the Cato Institute and America’s Future Foundation.

A nonprofit AI safety organization that researches, funds, and seeds high-impact interventions to reduce existential risk from artificial intelligence, operating key programs including the Nonlinear Network funding platform and the Nonlinear Library podcast.

David Chanin is a PhD student in the UCL Centre for Doctoral Training in Foundational AI, where he studies mechanistic interpretability and knowledge representation in large language models. He is a researcher at Decode Research and a maintainer of the SAELens library, contributing to open-source tooling for training sparse autoencoders and analyzing neural network internals.

Research scientist in the Algorithmic Alignment Group at MIT CSAIL working with Prof. Dylan Hadfield-Menell, broadly interested in ensuring that algorithms and systems behave correctly, safely, and in line with their intended real-world purpose.

Tessa Alexanian is a biosecurity professional and engineer focused on steering biotechnology toward positive futures. She is the Technical Lead for the Common Mechanism at IBBIS (International Biosecurity and Biosafety Initiative for Science), an international baseline for nucleic acid synthesis screening aimed at preventing misuse of synthetic biology. She holds an engineering degree from the University of Waterloo and spent four years as a lab automation engineer at Zymergen before serving two years as Safety and Security officer for the iGEM Competition. She has been organizing biosecurity events in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2018, founding the East Bay Biosecurity Group and co-instigating the Catalyst biosecurity summit, which brought together Bay Area biotech industry professionals, DIY biologists, and biosecurity researchers. She is a 2023 Council on Strategic Risks Fellow for Ending Bioweapons, a 2022 ELBI fellow, and a 2020 Foresight Fellow. She has collaborated with Open Philanthropy, NTI|bio, RAND, and the Federation of American Scientists, and co-authors the GCBR Organization Updates newsletter covering global catastrophic biological risk.

Rohinton P. Medhora is a CIGI distinguished fellow and professor of practice at McGill University’s Institute for the Study of International Development; he served as CIGI’s president from 2012 to 2022 and previously was vice president of programs at Canada’s International Development Research Centre, with expertise in international economic relations, innovation policy and development economics.