Alfie Lamerton

Alfie Lamerton is a UK-based AI safety researcher and founder of Formation Research, an organization focused on quantifying and minimizing lock-in risk — the risk that harmful or oppressive features of the world become permanently stabilized, particularly through AI-enabled authoritarianism and power concentration. He is also a part-time research assistant at King's College London working on clinical machine learning benchmarking, and holds an MSc from King's College London. He participated in the MARS (Mentorship in Alignment Research Students) London programme, through which he conducted a literature review on in-context learning hypotheses and their implications for automated AI alignment research, supported by a Long-Term Future Fund grant. His research interests span lock-in risks, recommender system alignment, AI-enabled totalitarianism, and governance-informed technical interventions. He writes about these topics on his Substack and has published related work on LessWrong.

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