Jess Whittlestone

Dr. Jess Whittlestone is Head of AI Policy at the Centre for Long-Term Resilience (CLTR), a UK-based think tank working to reduce extreme risks. In this role she leads CLTR's work developing and advocating for policy recommendations to reduce extreme risks from AI, including frontier AI regulation and model evaluation for catastrophic risks. She was previously a Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the AI: Futures and Responsibility Programme at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) at the University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD in Behavioural Science from the University of Warwick and a first-class degree combining Mathematics and Philosophy from the University of Oxford. She is also an affiliate of the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI) and has received funding from the Long-Term Future Fund to research the links between short- and long-term AI policy while building technical ML knowledge. She was named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI in 2023.

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