Benjamin Sturgeon

Benjamin Sturgeon is an AI safety researcher and field builder based in Cape Town, South Africa. He is the CTO and Co-Founder of AI Safety Cape Town, a field-building research organisation dedicated to expanding the community working on AI safety problems, and serves as Strategic Director of AI Safety South Africa. Previously a machine learning engineer, he transitioned to full-time AI safety research supported by a grant from the Long-Term Future Fund. He is pursuing an MPhil in Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town under supervisor Jonathan Shock, focusing on applying mechanistic interpretability to understand reinforcement learning models and measuring agency in AI agents. He also participated in the MATS (ML Alignment Theory Scholars) extension program and has co-authored research including HumanAgencyBench, a benchmark for evaluating human agency support in AI assistants.

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