Remmelt Ellen

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Bio

Updated 03/23/26

Remmelt Ellen is a Dutch AI safety organizer and researcher based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He co-founded Effective Altruism Netherlands in 2017 and co-launched AI Safety Camp (AISC) in 2018, serving as an organizer for nearly every edition of the program. At AISC he oversees program design and currently coordinates Stop/Pause AI projects, working to onboard initiatives that advocate for halting or pausing unsafe AI development. His research focuses on AGI safety impossibility arguments, including formal reasoning on why advanced AI systems cannot be reliably controlled, developed in collaboration with a former Pentagon engineer. He authored the book "Artificial Bodies: How Machines Replace People" (2024), a critical examination of how Big Tech corporations create exploitative systems that consume human resources and disrupt ecological balance. He has received grants from the Long-Term Future Fund to support AI Safety Camp's virtual and in-person programs.