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Sjir Hoeijmakers

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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.

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Lucius Bushnaq

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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.

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Akshyae Singh

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

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Oliver Klingefjord

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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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4-month stipend for a career transition period to explore roles in AI safety communications

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4-month stipend for a career transition period to explore roles in AI safety communications

Led bySarah Hastings-Woodhouse
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Giulia Carnà

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Evan Knight

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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.

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Mirco Giacobbe

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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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Joschka Braun

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Empirical AI Safety Research

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Fernando Rosas

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Husanjot Chahal

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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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Paper Clip Apocalypse (War Horse Machine)

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Short Documentary and Music Video

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Support for alignment theory agenda evaluation

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Support for alignment theory agenda evaluation

Led byJack Ryan
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Jacques Thibodeau - Independent AI Safety Research

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3 month salary for AI safety work on deconfusion and technical alignment.

Led byJacques Thibodeau
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1-year stipend (and travel and equipment expenses) for support for work on 2 AI safety projects: 1) Penalising neural…

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1-year stipend (and travel and equipment expenses) for support for work on 2 AI safety projects: 1) Penalising neural networks for learning polysemantic neurons; and 2) Crowdsourcing from volunteers for alignment research.

Led byDarryl Wright
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Grace Braithwaite

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Co-Founder of Cambridge Biosecurity Hub

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Annika Olson, M.A., MPP

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Import AI

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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.

Led byJack Clark
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Peter Gebauer

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Previously did GovAI's summer research fellowship, ran the Supervised Program for Alignment Research, and worked in communications.

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Pedro de Lima

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Lu Feng

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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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Simon Hill

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Camille Berger

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Master's degree in Cognitive Science. Running the Effectively Handling Disagreements workshop

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AJ Moore

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Harsimrandeep Malhi

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Soumya Sankar

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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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Emma Kimani

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Karpov

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AI Safety research ML engineer

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noah

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Kairos Project

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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.

Led byAgustín Covarrubias, Neav Topaz, Antonia Boetsch, and others
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Nikhil Shah

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Merve Ayyüce KIZRAK, Ph.D.

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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.

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Zohreh Shams

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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.

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Boston Nyer

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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.

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Caroline Araujo de Oliveira

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Development Director at Sinergia Animal, where I get to use my international business expertise with a deep commitment and love to animals.

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David Williams-King

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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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Patrick Mwangi Karanja

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Jim Bowes

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The Emergent AI Foundation

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A Coherence based Emergent Protocol

Led byAdriaan
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Jeba Sania

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Lucas Sato

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Yann Djinphié

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Doom Debates

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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.

Led byLiron Shapira, Ori Nagel
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David Vázquez

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Sara Horowitz

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Roman Leventov

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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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Erik Wikström

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No summary available yet.

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Andreas Pashos

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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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Max Eisenberg

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Groundless Alignment Residency 2025

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Practicing Embodied Protocols that work with Live Interfaces

Led byAditya Arpitha Prasad
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