Brian Tan
Bio
Brian Tan is a co-founder and Operations Director of WhiteBox Research, an AI safety nonprofit based in Manila, Philippines, that trains early-career researchers in mechanistic interpretability. He co-founded WhiteBox in August 2023 alongside Clark Urzo and Kriz Tahimic, and leads the organization's operations, marketing, and project management. He also serves as an Operations Associate at Arcadia Impact, a UK nonprofit focused on AI safety and governance. Brian co-founded Effective Altruism Philippines in 2018 and worked full-time to grow the chapter in 2021, before supporting EA communities globally as a Group Support Contractor at the Centre for Effective Altruism from 2022 to 2023. He holds a degree in IT Entrepreneurship from Ateneo de Manila University, where he graduated as a Merit Scholar in 2019. WhiteBox Research's flagship AI Interpretability Fellowship runs for five months in person in Manila, with the goal of building AI safety research capacity in Southeast Asia.
Links
- Personal Website
- https://briantan.xyz/
- Twitter / X
- LessWrong
- briantan
Grants
from Long-Term Future Fund
from Long-Term Future Fund
from Long-Term Future Fund
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- Last Updated
- Mar 22, 2026, 2:39 PM UTC
- Created
- Mar 20, 2026, 2:48 AM UTC