Angela Aristizábal is a researcher working on AI safety and global catastrophic risk, based at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City. She previously held a Research Scholar position at the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) at the University of Oxford. She founded and directed the ITAM AI Futures Fellowship, an eight-week residential program that brought early-career researchers from around the world to Mexico City to work on catastrophic risks from advanced AI. She also served as an expert advisor to Riesgos Catastróficos Globales and was a key organizer of EAGxLatAm 2023, the first major effective altruism conference in Latin America.
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By building research capacity in Latin America and training early-career researchers from underrepresented regions on AI safety and catastrophic risk topics, Aristizábal aims to diversify and expand the global talent pipeline working on existential risk. The fellowship model brings together fellows from around the world with established researchers, producing research outputs and creating a cohort of informed professionals who can continue contributing to AI safety in their home countries and regions. Expanding the geographic and cultural diversity of the AI safety field is seen as a way to improve the quality and robustness of the field's thinking and increase the number of people working on reducing risks from advanced AI.
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- Apr 2, 2026, 9:52 PM UTC
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- Mar 20, 2026, 2:34 AM UTC