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Stag Lynn is an independent researcher based in Riga, Latvia, focused on human behavior, rationality, and AI safety. He is an alumnus of the European Summer Program in Rationality (ESPR 2016) and served on the ESPR staff from 2017 to 2021, contributing to participant selection and curriculum development. In his home country, he co-founded the Latvian chapter of Effective Altruism and achieved a gold medal in the 2015 Latvian Olympiad in Mathematics. He received a $23,000 grant from the Long-Term Future Fund in 2019 to develop technical skills in programming, theoretical neuroscience, and game theory with the goal of contributing to AI safety research. He has since co-authored two substantial Alignment Forum reviews documenting active research agendas in AI safety: "Shallow review of live agendas in alignment & safety" (2023) and "Shallow review of technical AI safety, 2024" (2024).

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I lead the Existential Security team (previously known as the General Longtermism team) at Rethink Priorities. We are currently focused on helping launch entrepreneurial projects that reduce existential risk.

Kellee Wicker is vice president of the Center for Technology, Innovation, and Space at the Meridian International Center and former director of the Wilson Center’s Science and Technology Innovation Program, bringing over a decade of policy and international affairs experience focused on emerging technologies.

6 month salary for further pursuing sparse autoencoders for automatic feature finding

Jeff Clune is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute. His research focuses on deep learning and deep reinforcement learning, including open-ended and AI-generating algorithms. Previously he was a Senior Research Advisor to DeepMind, a research manager at OpenAI, a Senior Research Manager and founding member of Uber AI Labs, the Harris Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Wyoming, and a Research Scientist at Cornell University.

Background in economics and forecasting. Currently a researcher at Open Philanthropy.

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Finishing Computer Science Master's degree.

Managing Director of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen with a PhD in astrophysics, bringing leadership experience from Fraunhofer and space-tech scale-up constellr and focusing on creating optimal conditions for deep-tech research and technology transfer.

1-year stipend for independent research primarily on high-level interpretability

Leveraging 12 Nobel signatories to harmonize lab safety thresholds and secure an international agreement during the 2026 diplomatic window.

Researching neural net generalization on algorithmic tasks, upskilling in math relevant to singular learning theory

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Lecturer of Applied AI and course director of Applied AI at Deakin University’s School of Information Technology, with prior degrees from institutions in Iran, Malaysia and Australia, and a research focus in applied artificial intelligence who is listed as part of ARAAC and co-authors work on AI apology and explainable reinforcement learning.

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José Jaime Villalobos Ruiz is Multilateral Governance Lead at the Future of Life Institute and a Research Affiliate at both the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative and the Institute for Law & AI. He holds a PhD in International Law from Victoria University of Wellington, an LLM in International Law from the University of Cambridge (as a Chevening Scholar), and a BA from the Universidad de Costa Rica. His research focuses on the international law and governance of global catastrophic and existential risks, with particular emphasis on risks from artificial intelligence, and he is the lead author of a forthcoming book comparing international legal regimes to derive foundational principles for AI governance. He has co-authored influential policy reports including "International AI Institutions: A Literature Review of Models, Examples, and Proposals" (2023) and "Beyond a Piecemeal Approach: Prospects for a Framework Convention on AI" (2024), both with Matthijs Maas. He is also Co-Founder and Chief Editor of the Costa Rican Journal of International Law and has served in the consultative network of the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence.

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Page Hedley is a legal professional and member of LASST’s board of directors. He began his career as a litigator, including impact litigation at a nonprofit and commercial litigation at Williams & Connolly LLP, and since 2016 has focused on AI policy work at both industry and nonprofit organizations.

Mech interp · vision-language-action · adversarial self-play · world models. Founder of Φ(fight) Research. HKUST EE+AI sophomore

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Rosa Alegria is a Brazilian professional futurist and sustainability consultant, chair of The Millennium Project’s Brazilian Node and co-founder of the NEF futures studies group at São Paulo Catholic University. She holds a BA in Language and Literature from the University of São Paulo and a Master’s in Futures Studies from the University of Houston–Clear Lake and has, since 2000, led strategic foresight workshops and research on sustainability, corporate responsibility, gender relations, and media for diverse organizations.

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Neural network interpretability research

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Doug Lorenzen is CFO at AE Studio and brings over two decades of experience building and financing high-growth ventures, including co-founding Open English, serving on the founding team of Talespin, and acting as a venture partner at Moore Venture Partners and Awaken Capital.

Charles Martinet is Head of Policy at CeSIA and a researcher at the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, where he works on AI risk management, international cooperation, and institutional frameworks for governing advanced AI systems.

Head of AI Safety Evaluations at ILINA and a Researcher at the University of Cape Town African Hub on AI Safety, Peace, and Security, where she works on Africa‑centric model safety evaluations; she previously researched the persuasive capabilities of large language models and holds a psychology degree from United States International University‑Africa.

Carson Ezell is an AI governance and policy researcher affiliated with RAND Corporation and Harvard University. He is an undergraduate in Statistics at Harvard College (on leave) and has published widely on AI regulation and governance, including co-authoring papers on regulatory capture in AI policy, visibility and oversight of AI agents, FDA-style approval regulation for frontier AI, and incident analysis for AI agents. His research examines how AI companies attempt to influence the regulatory process and proposes systemic measures to mitigate industry capture of AI governance. Ezell has published through RAND, AIES (the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society), and FAccT. He received a Long-Term Future Fund grant in 2023 to conduct research projects on AI governance and strategy, with a focus on engaging with AI lab governance teams to identify unsolved problems. He identifies as an Effective Altruist focused on existential risk reduction.

Sam Uhr is the Chief Executive Officer of Millennial Holdings, a New Jersey–based real estate investment company focused on uncovering opportunities through analysis of economic trends, cash flows, and value-add potential.

4-month salary for two people to find formalisms for modularity in neural networks

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Morgan Simpson is an AI governance researcher and Research Manager at Pivotal Research, a London-based organization running mentored AI safety and governance research fellowships. Based in London, Simpson has approximately three years of experience in AI governance research and has co-authored multiple policy papers through the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, including work on voluntary industry initiatives in frontier AI governance, what should be internationalised in AI governance, model access governance, and UK AI security liability. Simpson has received funding from the AI Risk Mitigation Fund, including a grant to produce two white papers on AI safety infrastructure and legal instruments for containing technical knowledge, produced in collaboration with UCLA Professor Robert Trager. Simpson also published a widely-read guide on research management pitfalls on the EA Forum in January 2025.

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Yashika Begwani is a Contributing Writer for IndiaAI and the founder-CEO of Voice of Achievers, with a background in audio content, communications, and content strategy.

Founder of Briico, an innovative startup helping migrants start microbusinesses.

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4-month stipend: Research on agent scaling laws—relationships between training compute and agent capabilities of LLMs

Julie Guirado is the executive director of the Center for Humane Technology, leading the organization’s strategic direction and scaling its impact across research, media, and policy. She previously served as CHT’s chief operating officer and has led finance and operations teams across nonprofit, for‑profit, and entrepreneurial ventures after studying at ESSEC and in organizational psychology at Harvard.