Sienka Dounia

Sienka Dounia is a technical AI safety researcher originally from Chad, currently based in London after relocating to work on Eliciting Latent Knowledge (ELK) research with Jake Mendel at Apollo Research. She is a 2023 fellow of the ILINA Program (Initiative for Longtermism in Africa) and a 2024 fellow of the AI Futures Fellowship in Mexico, where she worked on developmental interpretability and singular learning theory. She is an AI Safety Content Associate and Knowledge & Systems Lead at Successif, a platform supporting professionals transitioning into AI risk reduction roles. She is also a researcher at the African Hub on AI Safety, Peace and Security at the University of Cape Town, and a co-author of the 2025 paper "Assessing the Case for Africa-Centric AI Safety Evaluations," which develops a risk taxonomy for frontier AI deployments in African contexts. Her research interests include model evaluation, model interpretability, AI deception, and the technical governance of advanced AI systems.

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