Shoshannah Tekofsky

Shoshannah Tekofsky is a researcher and Member of Technical Staff at Sage, a US nonprofit behind the AI Digest and AI Village projects, where she studies frontier AI agent behavior in persistent multi-agent environments. She holds a BSc in Cognitive Science, an MSc in Computer Science, and a PhD in Player Modeling in Video Games from Tilburg University (2017), where her dissertation examined connections between gaming behavior and cognitive traits across tens of thousands of players. She previously conducted research at the MIT Media Lab and the European Space Agency. Her AI safety work focuses on Collective Human Intelligence (CHI) as a framework for alignment, and she received a grant to research novel alignment strategies by analyzing and enhancing CHI across seven pilot studies. She is active on LessWrong (username: DarkSym) with over 50 posts on alignment, rationality, and AI psychology, and organizes rationality meetups in the Netherlands. She has also collaborated with EA Netherlands on rationality workshop development.

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