Philip Quirke
Bio
Updated 03/23/26Philip Quirke (also known as PQ) is an AI safety researcher and Research Lead at Martian who made a notable career transition into AI safety from a background in software engineering, Agile coaching, and business analysis. He entered the field through Apart Research's hackathon and fellowship program, which he describes as a transformation, and subsequently served as a Research Project Manager at FAR.AI. His research focuses on mechanistic interpretability, including a widely-cited 2023 paper on how transformers perform integer addition and collaborative work on planning representations in recurrent neural networks trained to play Sokoban. He has co-authored papers on AI regulation and alternative AI architectures, and has produced five papers while securing approximately $90,000 in research grants. He received an LTFF grant to support a six-month career pivot into AI safety and alignment research, and has been involved with AI Safety Australia and New Zealand.
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