Brian Tan

Manila, Philippines

Bio

Updated 03/22/26

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.