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Mikhail Baranchuk is an AI safety researcher and software engineer currently working in distributed computing at Google. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Oxford and a B.Sc. in Statistics and Computer Science from McGill University (Class of 2022). At Oxford, he completed a master's thesis titled "Error Correction for Perfectly Secure Generative Steganography on Arbitrary Covertext" (2023). He is best known for co-authoring "Secret Collusion among AI Agents: Multi-Agent Deception via Steganography," published at NeurIPS 2024, which was the first work to formally investigate secret collusion among frontier foundation models and evaluate steganographic capabilities in multi-agent LLM setups. His research interests include complex systems, multi-agent AI, and AI safety. He has previously worked at Morgan Stanley, National Bank of Canada, and Nuance-Microsoft, and received a grant to further research AI collusion mitigation strategies and develop secure steganographic techniques.

Mentored independent research and upskilling to transition from theoretical physics PhD to AI safety

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An AI safety advocacy nonprofit that monitors major AI companies' safety policies and conducts public campaigns to pressure the industry toward greater transparency, accountability, and responsible development practices.

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a 501(c)(4) focused on educating the general public

This grant provides 5 months of funding for office space for collaboration on interpretability/model-steering alignment research

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Sterlin is the founder and president of Polis Labs, an independent research institute focused on guiding emergent network states to embrace nonzero-sum governance practices. He prioritizes teaching wisdom and restraint in governance to prevent coordination failures from arising. Sterlin has over a decade of experience as a professional communicator, marketer, and researcher in the blockchain sector. He has worked with and consulted some of the top blockchain and network state organizations, such as bitcoin.com and Logos. Sterlin was a member of the first Network School cohort started by Balaji Srinivasan, and he is the author of the book, "Dignity & Decency: Rhapsodic Musings of a Modern Anarchist."

IIIT Hyderabad is India's first and leading research-focused IIIT, a not-for-profit public-private partnership university specializing in computer science and AI. It hosts the Responsible and Safe AI Systems course, supported by Open Philanthropy, and is a major hub for AI and machine learning research in India.

Rafael Besen is Chief People Officer at AE Studio with a master’s degree in computer science, around 15 years of software development experience, more than a decade in startups and team management, and over five years in customer relationship and product management for B2B and B2C products.

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Natalia Fedorova is Partnership Manager and AI Research Lead at Palisade Research, where she has worked since 2025 building collaborations around AI safety research. Previously, from 2020 to 2025, she served as Head of Research Partnerships at Toloka, leading research and industry partnerships on AI and data projects.

Studying more human-like intelligence through constraint-aware, curiosity-driven agents on ARC-AGI-3

Working on long-term macrostrategy and AI Alignment, and up-skilling and career transition towards that goal

Root The Future is an organisation committed to promoting a plant-based and sustainable lifestyle in Thailand.

Wendy Nather is Senior Research Initiatives Director at 1Password and a veteran security leader who previously led advisory CISO programs and research at Duo Security, the Retail ISAC, and 451 Research; she serves on the steering committee of the Institute for Security and Technology’s Ransomware Task Force and on the board of Sightline Security.

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Future Matters is a nonprofit strategy consultancy and think tank based in Berlin that helps organizations working on climate protection, AI governance, and biosecurity create effective policy and social change.

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Materials Science. I am interested in finding solutions that can unpick the damage in our natural environment.

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Founding researcher at Geodesic Research leading pretraining and midtraining safety directions to address dangerous capabilities such as biorisk and offensive cyber, and to instill deeper alignment and character into large language models.

3-month stipend to continue working on goal misgeneralisation project for ICLR deadline, plus travel funding

Virtue AI is an AI-native security and compliance platform that helps enterprises secure their AI systems and agents against threats like prompt injection, hallucinations, and data poisoning. It was founded in 2024 by leading AI safety researchers Bo Li, Dawn Song, Carlos Guestrin, and Sanmi Koyejo.

Giuseppe Dal Prá is the Founder and CEO of the Odyssean Institute and a transdisciplinary thinker focused on whole-society transitions to a more resilient and flourishing civilisation. He studied History and Politics at Balliol College, University of Oxford, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and has written on preparing democratic institutions for wicked problems and systemic risks such as runaway climate change using deliberative and other antifragile reforms. He also co-authored the ComplexCity proposal, a semi-finalist in the Global Challenges Foundation’s New Shape Prize, which outlined an epistemic democratic platform for citizen-led policy experimentation.

Nathan Lile is a co-founder and CEO of SynthLabs.ai, a research lab focused on improving the reasoning and alignment of frontier AI systems using reinforcement learning from human and AI feedback and synthetic data. He previously worked as a researcher at Stability AI and continues to collaborate with EleutherAI on post-training methods such as RLHF and RLAIF for GPT-NeoX and related large language model projects.([scholar.google.com](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=y6v6c-4AAAAJ))

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Anja Manuel is a co-founder and principal at Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC, a strategic consulting firm that helps U.S. companies navigate international markets and geopolitical risk. She is also executive director of the Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum and previously served in the U.S. Department of State as special assistant to the under secretary for political affairs, focusing on South Asia policy.

Computing resources and researcher salaries at a new deep learning + AI alignment research group at Cambridge

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Wyatt Tessari L'Allié is the Founder and Executive Director of AI Governance and Safety Canada (AIGS Canada), a non-partisan not-for-profit organization based in Ottawa working to ensure advanced AI is safe and beneficial. He moved to Ottawa in October 2021 to build the Canadian AI safety and governance community, consolidating various Canadian AI safety groups into a unified national organization. His background spans mechanical engineering (École Polytechnique de Montréal, 2011), filmmaking (New York Film Academy, 2008), mining and emissions compliance work, and climate advocacy through three electoral campaigns between 2010 and 2015. After learning about AGI and x-risk in 2015, he spent four years researching 21st-century challenges and authored a book on global issue prioritization before transitioning fully to AI governance work. Since 2022, AIGS Canada has made public policy submissions to the Canadian federal government and he has testified before multiple parliamentary committees on AI governance. He received Long-Term Future Fund grants to connect, expand, and enable the AGI safety and governance community in Canada.

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Software engineer at Elicit

4-month stipend for upskilling within the field of economic governance of AI

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Tahir Mahmood Saleh is passionate about building a better, more inclusive world. With hands-on experience in project management, governance, climate action, and youth empowerment, he has led and supported impactful initiatives that uplift communities and drive change. Through his work with organizations like Bridge Nigeria Initiative, DOTAKEACTION, OCCEN, and now with Center for Renewable Energy and Action on Climate Change CREACC-NG, Tahir champions citizen engagement, economic empowerment, and sustainable development, always bringing energy, empathy, and a vision for a brighter future.

Goodfire is an AI interpretability research lab that builds tools to understand and design the internal mechanisms of neural networks. Their flagship product, Ember, gives engineers direct, programmable access to AI model internals.