Mikhail Baranchuk
Bio
Updated 03/22/26Mikhail Baranchuk is an AI safety researcher and software engineer currently working in distributed computing at Google. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Oxford and a B.Sc. in Statistics and Computer Science from McGill University (Class of 2022). At Oxford, he completed a master's thesis titled "Error Correction for Perfectly Secure Generative Steganography on Arbitrary Covertext" (2023). He is best known for co-authoring "Secret Collusion among AI Agents: Multi-Agent Deception via Steganography," published at NeurIPS 2024, which was the first work to formally investigate secret collusion among frontier foundation models and evaluate steganographic capabilities in multi-agent LLM setups. His research interests include complex systems, multi-agent AI, and AI safety. He has previously worked at Morgan Stanley, National Bank of Canada, and Nuance-Microsoft, and received a grant to further research AI collusion mitigation strategies and develop secure steganographic techniques.
Community Signal
Updated 03/22/26No endorsements yet.
Links
Updated 03/22/26- Personal Website
- http://baranchuk.ca/
- Twitter / X
- -
- LessWrong
- -
- EA Forum
- -