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Senior Technology Fellow, Institute for Progress

Associate Professor, University of Warwick
Co-Mentor: Lucius Caviola

Founder and Director, Allelo

Head of Policy & Strategy, Lucid Computing

Research Lead, Arcadia Impact

Researcher, Institute for AI Policy and Strategy

Director of Policy and Research, ALTER

Member of Technical Staff, Geodesic Research
Co-Mentor: Puria Radmard

Member of Technical Staff, Geodesic Research
Co-Mentor: Puria Radmard

Research Fellow, Safe AI Forum

Policy Researcher, Future of Life Institute

Research Scientist, Preparedness team, Scale AI
Co-Mentor: Shi Feng

Partner, Arb Research

Researcher, Institute for AI Policy and Strategy

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic

Member of Technical Staff, Apollo Research

Member of Technical Staff, UK AISI

Executive Director, Principia

CTO, Sampura Research
Sampura Research Stream

VP of Policy, Americans for Responsible Innovation

Research Scientist, Google DeepMind

Researcher, MIRI

AI Control Researcher, Independent
Co-Mentor: Jess Bergs

Co-Founder & Technical Director, Geodesic
Co-Mentor: Kyle O'Brien

Head of European Policy and Research, FLI
Co-Mentor: Eliška Andrš

Researcher, Safe AI Forum

Principal Investigator, Praxis Research
Co-Mentor: Eyon Jang

Special Projects Manager, SASH
SASH Stream

Research Associate, Adecco / Google Deepmind

Research Scientist, Apollo Research

Assistant Professor, University of Cambridge
Co-Mentor: Caspar Kaiser

PhD Student at University of Oxford / Graduate Research Fellow at SecureBio

Senior Program Associate, Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness at Coefficient Giving

Visiting Research Fellow at American Enterprise Institute

Biosecurity Field Specialist and Technical Communications at Amodo Design

Co-Founder, Discovery & Strategy at SynX Therapeutics

Built Environment Program Director at Blueprint Biosecurity
Blueprint Stream

Executive Director of Blueprint Biosecurity
Blueprint Stream

Senior Fellow at Blueprint Biosecurity
Blueprint Stream

PPE Director at Blueprint Biosecurity
Blueprint Stream

Senior Adviser, Biosecurity Policy at the Centre for Long-Term Resilience

Director of Biosecurity Policy at the Centre for Long-Term Resilience

Genomic Biosecurity Scientist at SecureBio

Independent Biosecurity Researcher

Fellow at Blueprint Biosecurity

PhD candidate at MIT and the Broad Institute

Fellow at Blueprint Biosecurity

Senior Biosecurity Policy Manager, Centre for Long Term Resilience

Director of Emerging Technologies & Resilience, RAND Europe

CEO of SynX Therapeutics

Fellow at Brown University Pandemic Center

PhD Student at Oxford University

Founder and Research Lead, Formation Research

ML Researcher and Bioinformatician, SecureBio

Member of Technical Staff at Security Level 5 Task Force

PhD student, University of Oxford & Oxford Martin AIGI Affiliate

Senior Policy Manager, Centre for Long-Term Resilience

Executive Director, Intelligence Security Laboratories (ISL)
AI Oversight Lead at CARMA
Researcher, Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative
Senior Research Scientist, LawZero
Research Scientist, LawZero

Head of AI Research, SecureBio
Managing Director at AI Whistleblower Initiative

Co-Director, Oxford Martin AI Governance
Head of AI Engineering, SecureBio
Member of Technical Staff, Goodfire

Senior Researcher, Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS)

Adjunct, RAND

Member of Technical Staff, Redwood Research

Head of Science of Evaluation, UK AI Security Institute

Postdoc, Stanford University

Research Scientist, Google DeepMind

Independent Researcher

Research Scientist (Cognitive Science), UK AI Security Institute

Research Manager, CBAI

Associate Professor, MIT

Postdoctoral Associate, MIT

Research Fellow, Safe AI Forum

Senior Researcher, Oxford AIGI

Member of Technical Staff, Redwood Research

IAPS

Advanced AI Director, Centre for Future Generations

Assistant Professor, Hebrew University

Eleos AI

Research Engineer, Google DeepMind

Executive Director, Timaeus

CEO, TamperSec

Research Scientist, Google DeepMind

Research Director, Cooperative AI Foundation

Senior Research Engineer, Google DeepMind

Associate Researcher, Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS)

Member of Technical Staff, Redwood Research

Research Fellow at Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI)

Researchers at AI Futures Project

PhD Reseacher, University of Cambridge

AI Policy Researcher, Safe AI Forum

AI Hardware Security

Researcher, Redwood Research

Researcher at Machine Intelligence Research Institute

Researchers at AI Futures Project

Director of Strategy and Outreach at Timaeus, Timaeus

Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of California Berkeley, UC Berkeley

MIT PhD in Security for AI, Stanford HAI

Professor, Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark

Assistant Dean, Georgetown University
Mentor, Founders Pledge
Mentor, GovAI
Mentor, Forethought
Mentor, IAPS
Charlotte is an MIT PhD student and founding member of KIRA.eu.
Assistant Professor and Co-Director of Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL), Purdue University

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Co-founder of ALLFED
Simon Institute for Longterm Governance; AI Governance Researcher.

Research lead at ICFG.eu, working on risks from AI and biotechnology

Chem-Bio Lead, UK AI Safety Institute

Director and co-founder of Apollo Research
Senior Research Associate and Academic Programme Manager, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

Policy Development & Strategy Manager at DeepMind

Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI
Contract Researcher at Rethink Priorities on AI governance strategy.
President, Three3, Inc.
PhD in economics & MSc in environmental eng. Founder, Oxford Energy Economics.
PhD student working on neuromorphic AI systems at LSM @ EPFL.

Researcher VC at Leonis Capital
Economics PhD student at the University of Oxford; focused on forecasting for longtermism, space governance, and political economy.
Senior Researcher in the Risk and Resilience Team at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich.
Assistant professor, UITM in Rzeszow; Visiting scholar, Yale University; philosophy of space exploration; feminism; bioethics.

Research engineer at Conjecture, Neural Data Analysis, AI Safety
Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of Queensland

Executive Director at The Future Society
Senior Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of Philosophy, University of Zurich.
PhD student at ETH Zürich; AI & neuroscience researcher.
Governance of Artificial Intelligence Researcher.
PhD student working on machine learning at ETH Zürich & Research intern at DeepMind.
Assistant Professor in Philosophy at University of Geneva.
Assistant Professor and the adjunct head of the Master's degree in Ethics at the Université de Strasbourg.
CEO at Simon Institute for Longterm Governance.
Research Associate at Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER).

Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich
Senior Researcher, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich; research affiliate, AI Governance Research Group, Future of Humanity Institute
Professor of philosophy and department chair, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

Program Officer, Astralis Foundation

Lead Researcher, Verification, SASH
SASH Stream

Founder & CEO, Sampura Research
Sampura Research Stream
Mentor, RAND
Mentor, Redwood Research
Mentor, Ada Lovelace Institute
Mentor, NTI
Mentor, University of New Brunswick
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