CO-FOUNDER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

David is an AI safety researcher and research manager focused on x-risk reduction. He works at the AI safety fellowship ERA, and runs AI security events like FAST in Singapore. David enjoys mentoring people new to AI safety, and also cares about communication of AI risks.

CO-FOUNDER, RESEARCH DIRECTOR

Linh is an independent AI safety researcher, affiliated with Oxford AI Governance Initiative (AIGI). Previously, she was with Mila and with the University of Technology Sydney. Linh dreams of running simulations of AI policies to avoid catastrophic outcomes for the world.

RESEARCHER, SPAR MENTOR

Hong Kiat is an AI safety researcher and is currently finishing up his PhD in Mathematics at UCLA. He is your average mech interp enjoyer, and is interested in developing and applying mechanistic interpretability in AI safety and alignment.

RESEARCHER

Melanie is an AI safety and governance researcher. She is particularly interested in coordination failures and governance solutions for middle powers navigating the AI transition.

SPAR FELLOW

Astha is a lead ML engineer at Bain & Company. She is interested in AI safety and security work.

SPAR FELLOW

Niruthi is a PhD student at École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS Montréal). She is interested in AI security.

RESEARCHER

Zachary is an AI safety researcher, educator, and convener focused on AI impacts on policy and governance. Previously he led the AI program for a US policy accelerator where he organized workshops on AI capabilities and timelines for federal policy makers. He also leads a field building effort for formal methods approaches to AGI Uncontainability.

RESEARCHER

Cedric is an AI safety researcher from NYU with experience working in the Trust and Safety space. He's interested in cybersecurity topics and applications of AI governance in creative spaces, specifically AI-generated content.

RESEARCHER

Chiffon is interested in making AI safe and empowering, reducing loss of control and disempowerment, and multi-agent systems. Her work also includes multilingual AI and AI for good.

AGENT BACKEND ENGINEER

Arthur's background is in distributed systems engineering. He has spent the last three years building production multiagent systems and doing autonomous agent research. He lives in Washington, DC.