Gunnar Zarncke

Gunnar Zarncke is a software engineer and entrepreneur based in Hamburg, Germany. He is the co-founder and Managing Director of aintelope UG, a non-profit AI safety organization he launched in 2022 with two colleagues from the Hamburg EA community. The aintelope project was inspired by Steven Byrnes' brain-like AGI research agenda and focuses on reverse-engineering human social instincts through reinforcement learning agents in simulated multi-agent environments, with the goal of benchmarking AI alignment. The project received funding from the Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF). In his professional career, Zarncke has held senior technical roles including Principal Engineer and CISO at troy gmbh in Hamburg, and previously worked at Kreditech and emetriq GmbH. He studied at Fachhochschule Wedel (1994–1997). Zarncke is a long-standing member of the LessWrong and Alignment Forum communities, with over 11,000 karma and more than 150 posts spanning topics in rationality, cognition, and AI safety.

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