Darren McKee
Bio
Darren McKee is a Canadian author, senior policy advisor, and AI safety communicator based in Ottawa, Ontario. He holds an MSc in Experimental Psychology and a Master of Public Administration with a Global Governance concentration. McKee has served as a senior policy advisor in the Canadian federal government for over 15 years, working across domains including science and technology, behavioural science, and foresight, with roles at the Privy Council Office and Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. He is the author of Uncontrollable: The Threat of Artificial Superintelligence and the Race to Save the World (2023), a beginner-friendly book on AI risk and safety that received endorsements from Max Tegmark, Will MacAskill, and Roman Yampolskiy, and became a number-one bestseller. McKee also co-authored a chapter on AI and autonomy in Westworld Psychology (2021) and serves as an advisor to AIGS Canada (Artificial Intelligence Governance and Safety Canada). He is the host of The Reality Check, an award-winning skepticism and critical thinking podcast ranked in the top 0.5% of podcasts globally with over 4 million downloads.
Links
- Personal Website
- https://www.darrenmckee.info/
- Twitter / X
- LessWrong
- darren-mckee
Grants
from Long-Term Future Fund
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- Last Updated
- Mar 22, 2026, 3:22 PM UTC
- Created
- Mar 20, 2026, 2:50 AM UTC