Chief Technology Officer of the UK AI Security Institute and artificial intelligence adviser to Prime Minister Keir Starmer; previously Governance Lead at OpenAI and co‑founder of the Centre for the Governance of AI at the University of Oxford.

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James Andrew Smith is a biosecurity researcher with a DPhil in medical sciences from the University of Oxford, where he also holds an undergraduate degree in biological sciences. He conducted postdoctoral and senior postdoctoral research at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS) and the Centre for Statistics in Medicine at Oxford. He later held positions as a Research Fellow at RAND and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Long-Term Resilience, working on biological risks from emerging technologies across academic, industry, and policy settings. In 2022 he co-authored the PLOS Biology paper "Biosecurity in an age of open science" (with Jonas Sandbrink), which examined how open science practices interact with biosecurity risks — a paper supported by the Long-Term Future Fund. More recently, he co-authored the landmark December 2024 Science paper on mirror life risks and now serves as Director of the Mirror Biology Dialogues Fund, an organization supporting expert dialogue on the risks posed by mirror biology.

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Charles Dillon is a partner at Arb Research, where he co‑leads the consultancy’s work on empirical and conceptual questions in AI and related sciences. Before joining Arb he spent three years as a senior portfolio manager at Millennium and eight years in electronic ETF trading at Susquehanna, where he also taught weekly poker classes to new hires, and later worked on an education technology startup providing AI‑based exam coaching.

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Generalist at Kairos working to support talent in AI safety, previously director of the Wisconsin AI Safety Initiative, with experience in software engineering and student community building.

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Claire Leibowicz is Director of AI, Trust, and Society and head of the AI and Media Integrity program at Partnership on AI, where she works with global stakeholders to develop responsible AI practices for media and information ecosystems. She is also a DPhil candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute, researching truth and authenticity in the digital age and the impact of AI-enabled manipulation on how people interpret visual information.

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Ann-Kathrin Dombrowski is a Member of Technical Staff and Research Engineer at FAR.AI, where she focuses on explainable AI, AI transparency, and mitigating the malicious use of AI models. She holds a PhD from Technische Universität Berlin, where her research examined a geometrical perspective on counterfactual explanations and attribution methods for deep neural networks. She participated in the ML Alignment and Theory Scholars (MATS) program as a scholar under Dan Hendrycks, contributing to research on representation engineering and knowledge removal, and subsequently received LTFF funding to extend that work on internal concept extraction. She also explored information processing in large language models as a PIBBSS affiliate. Her published work includes contributions to the WMDP benchmark for measuring hazardous knowledge in AI models, safety evaluation toolkits for open-source models, and research on the manipulability of neural network explanations.

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Ryan Greenblatt is Chief Scientist at Redwood Research, where he works on technical AI safety and security, including co-authoring research on AI control, alignment faking in large language models, and benchmarks for detecting measurement tampering; he holds a BS in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Brown University.

David Moss is an advisor to Nonlinear and the Principal Research Manager at Rethink Priorities. According to his Nonlinear team bio, he previously worked for Charity Science, has led work on the EA Survey for several years, studied philosophy at Cambridge, and is an academic researcher in moral psychology.

Co‑Director and co‑founder of Kairos, a generalist and builder with a strong interest in entrepreneurship and AI safety, with prior experience in marketing, analytics, talent, and operations roles at large tech companies like Akamai and at startups, as well as in building long‑lasting communities.

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Arthur Nelson is co-director of the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, leading a team that examines how emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and cyber capabilities shape global security, governance, and economic relations.

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Co-founder and early leader of the Czech Association for Effective Altruism who, during his M.A. studies at Charles University, helped incubate and grow the organization into a self-sustaining NGO, and later became a public policy researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, where he founded and leads the non-profit Czech Priorities (České priority) to promote evidence-based policymaking and foresight in the Czech Republic.

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Lee Mason is a UP Coach at Upgradable whose mission is to help people lead optimally healthy, happy, and meaningful lives. His background includes work as a physical therapist in rehabilitation centers, a university hospital, and a hospice, teaching university courses on well-being and self-development, creating an online course on human flourishing, writing about sustainably achieving important goals, and running self-development workshops for international audiences.

Logan Strohl (formerly Brienne Yudkowsky) is an independent rationality researcher and writer based in the Sierra foothills of California. They are the developer of "naturalism," a methodology for advancing the art of rationality through patient and direct observation, described as an approach more akin to studying botany than attending a coding bootcamp. Logan was previously a Research & Instructor at the Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR), where they worked on original curriculum and instructor training. Their work focuses on improving epistemic practices by refining the very concepts that beliefs are made of, rather than merely correcting individual beliefs. They have published an extensive "Intro to Naturalism" sequence on LessWrong, run nature study courses, and maintained the blog Agenty Duck. Logan has received multiple grants from the Long-Term Future Fund totaling $240,000 to develop and share their investigative rationality methods.

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Emily Grundy is a policy officer at Good Ancestors, where she works on practical policy responses to Australia’s biggest AI-related risks. She previously worked on MIT’s AI Risk Repository and has conducted behavioural science research at Monash University, contributing to global efforts to map and analyse risks from artificial intelligence.

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James Bregan is the co-founder and CEO of Constellation Institute. He previously held senior technology leadership roles at PayPal, where he helped scale the company from roughly 100 to 10,000 employees and served as EVP Engineering during its acquisition by eBay, and he has spent much of his career building startups in both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors.

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Melanie Plaza is CTO at AE Studio with more than 10 years of experience building products and leading teams for early-stage startups and tech companies; she previously served as CTO at To The Tens, co-founded ELIX, worked as a full-stack developer at several LA-based startups, and holds a B.S. from Yale University focused on statistical analysis of ecological systems.

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PhD student in the ML4STS Lab working on task-level fairness and fair feature selection in machine learning systems.

Krzysztof Gwiazda is a Polish individual pursuing entry into AI safety research, specifically mechanistic interpretability. In Q3 2024, he received a $5,000 grant from the Long-Term Future Fund to support a two-month period of upskilling in mechanistic interpretability, with the aim of completing two to three projects in the field before exploring adjacent areas. His background appears to be in software and computer science. He represents an early-career pathway into technical AI safety research through self-directed study supported by EA-aligned funding.

Maximilian Negele is a researcher at the RAND Center for AI, Security, and Technology, where he leads European frontier AI policy work, and a Research Affiliate at the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative. His research focuses on the geopolitics of AI, frontier AI risk management, multinational advanced AI development, and EU AI policy including the EU AI Act. Before joining RAND, he co-founded cFactual, an AI-focused non-profit consulting firm, worked as a strategy consultant at Boston Consulting Group, and served as a summer fellow and research assistant at the Centre for the Governance of AI. He holds an M.Phil. in Economics from the University of Oxford and a B.A. in Liberal Arts and Sciences from University College Roosevelt (Utrecht University). His connection to the effective altruism and long-termist community dates to around 2016, when he interned at Giving What We Can and the Centre for Effective Altruism; he was also a 2019 Global Priorities Fellow at the Forethought Foundation. He received a Long-Term Future Fund grant in 2020 to research the historical longevity and decay of universities, philanthropic foundations, and Catholic orders in collaboration with Phil Trammell at the Global Priorities Institute, work intended to inform the feasibility of establishing multi-century charitable foundations for patient philanthropy.

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Théo Knopfer is a French biosecurity and AI policy researcher originally from Martinique, who studied English in Lyon, France, and wrote his Master's thesis on Anglo-European defence integration during the Cold War. He is a 2023 Fellow of the Foresight Institute and has been involved with EA France and Effective Thesis as a volunteer. His research focuses on assessing the threat of terrorist use of emerging technologies, particularly AI and biotechnology, with a special emphasis on European biodefence policy and military AI. He received grants from the Long-Term Future Fund to explore biosecurity policy projects including work on the Biological Weapons Convention and European early detection systems, and received travel support to attend the BWC Review Conference. He also led the translation of the 80,000 Hours Career Guide into French, funded by Open Philanthropy. His long-term goal is to pursue policy advocacy in governmental organisations to improve decision-making in high-uncertainty situations through empirical and factual evidence.

Antony (Ant) Rowstron is a computer systems researcher serving as a senior technology leader at ARIA, after more than two decades at Microsoft Research where he was a Distinguished Engineer. His work has spanned storage, networking, distributed systems, and optical and robotics technologies for cloud data centres.

Nancy Staudt is vice president at RAND and the Frank and Marcia Carlucci Dean of the RAND School of Public Policy, where she is leading efforts to expand the school’s impact, grow its student body, and strengthen its role in training the next generation of policy leaders. A nationally recognized scholar in tax, tax policy, and empirical legal studies, she previously served as dean and the Howard and Caroline Cayne Distinguished Professor at Washington University School of Law and earlier held senior academic leadership roles at the University of Southern California, including vice dean at the Gould School of Law and founding codirector of the Schwarzenegger Institute of State and Global Policy.

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