Thomas Woodside
Thomas Woodside is Co-Founder and Senior Policy Advisor at the Secure AI Project, an organization that develops and advocates for pragmatic policies to reduce risks of severe harm from advanced AI. He is also a master's student in Security Studies at Georgetown University. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Yale University, where his undergraduate thesis focused on vulnerabilities in large language models. He was the first employee at the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), where he worked with Director Dan Hendrycks and co-authored the widely read paper "An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks" with Hendrycks and Mantas Mazeika. He subsequently served as a Junior Fellow at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), publishing research on LLM evaluation, emergent abilities, AI agents, and AI reporting requirements. His policy work includes advocacy on California SB 1047, SB 53, and the New York RAISE Act.
