Manifund

AGI safety Research Scientist at Anthropic. Previously Research Fellow at Machine Intelligence Research Institute.

Leopold Aschenbrenner

Superalignment @ OpenAI

Interpretability at Anthropic

CEO & co-founder at FAR AI, a trustworthy AI non-profit; PhD AI UC Berkeley 2022; LTFF fund manager 2020-2022

Executive Director of the Center for AI Safety

Marcus Abramovitch

Effective altruist, earning to give running a crypto fund. Very concerned with animal welfare and longtermism and their intersection. Ex-poker player and chemisty PhD student.

Studying math @ Berkeley. Past: self-taught biology & neurosci @ Oxford, director @ Future Forum.

Gavriel Kleinwaks

Project manager at 1Day Sooner. Focused on biosecurity and policy.

Research Manager at Rethink Priorities

Researcher & forecaster

Working on biosecurity-relevant AI evaluations and cost-effectiveness models.

Co-Director at MATS; Executive Board Member at LISA

I work on Manifold & Manifund!

Yeah, that one.

Rachel Weinberg

Building this site! Ran EA @ Tufts, where I also studied math.

Indepedent AI Researcher, Lighting Designer, Autodidactic nerd.

Annalise Norling

Ihonwa Omorogieva Sylvester

Founder, Creationsbase Education Foundation

Responsible AI investing research | Group for Responsible Reporting on AI co-founder | Cost-effectiveness analysis at Charity Navigator

AI Safety Researcher & Alignment PhD

Aryeh L. Englander

I do AI risk research at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). I am also doing a PhD on risk and decision analysis under extreme uncertainty, with a particular focus on AI existential risks, at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).

aisafety.info content lead

Senior Project Manager, Senior Consultant, Product owner, Innovation Manager/Consultant, Risk Manager, Product conformity professional

AI safety researcher

Peter Brietbart

Former CEO at Mind Ease, UpLift

Aaron Silverbook

Stanford CS BS->MS 2018-24 – AI Safety, Alignment, and Governance

Theo Sechopoulos

Independent Mechanistic Interpretability Research Engineer

Seeds of Science

an open access scientific journal specializing in speculative and non-traditional research articles

David Rhys Bernard

Connor McCormick

Douglas Campbell

Damiano Fornasiere and Pietro Greiner

Searching for a business model that scales the ideas of giving a voice to the voiceless and speaking truth to power

Founder of Jhourney, a startup mapping the neural correlates of "life-changing" meditative states and designing interventions to make them more useful. Ex-Lyft SWE, Ex-Bridgespan (Bain) mgmt consultant

Apollo Research

Robert Cousineau

Matthew Cameron Farrugia-Roberts

Early-career researcher (AI x-risk, computer science background)

Mahan Tourkaman

AI Safety Researcher / Founder

Biosecurity researcher; Middlebury, Stanford

I use philosophy, mathematics and computer science to make the world better.

Program coordinator of AI Safety Camp. Initiator of RIDAISCAM.

Maksym Makarenko

Founder @ EA Ukraine

Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla

Andres Jimenez Zorrilla is the CEO of Shrimp Welfare Project, an organisation dedicated to improving the welfare of farmed shrimp. Prior to working to improve animal welfare, he worked for more than 15 years in investment banking and private equity for firms such as Morgan Stanley and Aermont Capital in the United Kingdom, Spain, Mexico and Qatar.

Jacques Thibodeau

I work primarily on AI Alignment. My main direction at the moment is to accelerate alignment work via language models and scalable oversight.

Mechanistic Interpretability researcher

Paige is a creator and technology integrator.

Organizing for a moratorium on frontier AI

jeffrey.kursonis

Veteran altruistic and creative media org leader

Building Real Money Prediction Markets on topics that matter most

Arjun Panickssery

Joshua A. Becker

I am a researcher at the UCL School of Management studying how communication impacts belief/forecasting accuracy.

Sheikh Abdur Raheem Ali

Software Engineer II at Microsoft Canada

I am brand new to all of this and I'm trying to learn the proper way to create a website or an app which will assist inmates in American. Prisons to make connections as if they are communicating with a human pen pal but it will be an AI. Program which will write responses to digital letters that are written by inmates and sent to their connection

Hugo Roberto Lima Ramirez

I am an engineer and translator from Brazil.

Cofounder of Beeminder, academic background in prediction markets

Focused on improving forecasting of Global Catastrophic Risks

w.howard256@gmail.com

Jesse Szepieniec

Designer / Developer

Some random dude.

Lecturer in computational linguistics at Macquarie University

sometimes i play with blocks, sometimes i try to avert extinction

Jesús Francisco Quevedo Osegueda

Economist from El Salvador

Holding (but not selling) impact certs for entries to Open Philanthropy's AI Worldviews Contest until writers claim them.

Dima Gershenzon

Petar Buyukliev

Marcel van Diemen

Director of Communications and Lead on Resilience and Risk at the Adam Smith Institute. Used to work on the UK Prime Minister’s campaign team and Senior Communications Officer for a Transport Minister.

Jacob Gloudemans

Engineer, trying to solve problems and increase happiness

Lead at AI-plans.com

Haven (Hayley) Worsham

Vikram (Vik) Gupta

Hi! I'm Vik, a 17 y/o engineer in the Cambridge/Boston area interested in Human Augmentation and Art-Tech!

I'm a research fellow at the Global Priorities institute, Oxford. Starting Fall 2023, I'll be Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University.

Hey! I'm a 19 year old who moved from Minneapolis to Berkeley and am currently a full-stack developer.

Galois Insights Limited

We offer top-notch Big Data Analytics, Digital Transformation solutions, Mentorship Program to bridge digital skills gap.

Miguelito De Guzman

Independent Researcher

Nigel has a diverse background in artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, and the earth and planetary sciences. He has developed scalable AI and MLOps solutions at Fortune 100 companies, including Disney+, IBM, and Shell. His startup, ClimateFire AI, uses deep learning to scan for wildfires in satellite data from the United States and parts of Canada. ClimateFire AI’s cloud-based solution requires no hardware, significantly undercutting the cost of competing wildfire detection technologies.

Ethan Josean Perez

I am a research scientist at Anthropic working on large language models, and my work aims to reduce the risk of catastrophic outcomes from advanced machine learning systems. I also spend some time at New York University (NYU) collaborating with Sam Bowman's group on AI safety research. I received my PhD from NYU under the supervision of Kyunghyun Cho and Douwe Kiela and funded by NSF and Open Philanthropy. Previously, I've spent time at DeepMind, Facebook AI Research, Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, and Google.

Reed Shafer-Ray

Co-Organizer of OPTIC

Superforecaster, also a forecaster for Samotsvety, the Swift Centre & INFER. Interested in X-risk reduction.

SERI MATS virtual participant (Winter 2022), AGISF Q1 2023 Facilitator

Co-director of AI Safety University group at Top 100 university in Europe

Alexander Bistagne

Computational Complexity & AI Alignment Independent Researcher

Vincent van der Holst

Founder of BOAS - A reverse auction vintage fashion platform that saves kids' lives.

Principal Research Director at Rethink Priorities. I lead the Surveys and Data Analysis Team. Previously worked at Charity Science. Former Trustee of EA London and Charity Entrepreneurship.

Jordan Schneider

Aspiring Independent Alignment Researcher

Keith Wilkinson

I am a drinking water industry professional, rationalist and aspiring writer.

The mathematician who discovered ordered semigroup actions.

AI Safety Strategy - Founder

Giuseppe Dal Pra

CEO and Founder of the Odyssean Institute

Founder of CEEALAR

Co-Founder and Executive Director of Panoplia Laboratories, a technical biosecurity nonprofit. Previously Head of R&D at the vaccine development start-up Alvea.

Math and alignment research.

Co-director at Apart Research

I lead the Existential Security team (previously known as the General Longtermism team) at Rethink Priorities. We are currently focused on helping launch entrepreneurial projects that reduce existential risk.

Brian T. Edwards

Founder of Deepvail

Executive Director and Co-Founder

Passionate about solving the Metacrisis. Solarpunk Regen. Moonshot Thinking.

Jeremy Rubinoff

Rubi Hudson: AI Safety Researcher, Economics PhD Student

Passionate about Public Goods and most importantly bringing the power of tools getting built in crypto space to real world.

Hardeep Singh Gambhir

Community builder taking a gap year in Berkeley

Ph.D. Student at MIT

Florent Berthet

Co-founded EA France. Director at EffiSciences.

Jorge Andrés Torres Celis

Project coordinator at Riesgos Catastroficos Globales

researching AI consciousness and related issues

Adrian Regenfuss

Finishing Computer Science Master's degree.

AI progress and alignment studies

Forecaster and Developer

Rachel Freedman

AIS researcher, PhD student at CHAI

Robert Krzyzanowski

Independent AI Safety Researcher

Vegan Georgia was founded in 2015 as the first — and the only one so far — animal rights organization aimed at protecting animals of a wide spectrum of species, from dogs and cats to cows and fish, from snails and bats to elephants and minks.

We are a new AI Safety Org, focusing on Conceptual Interpretability

Proud holder of first place on the inverse Manifold profit leaderboard.

Kenan Schaefkofer

Software engineer

I am a college drop out and tinkerer from Tennessee, living in Berkeley, CA!

Executive Director of High Impact Medicine

Winston Oswald-Drummond

I work on reducing s-risks at the Center for Reducing Suffering.

Qualy the lightbulb

Official Unofficial EA mascot

Just here to check this out

Adrià Garriga-Alonso

Research Scientist at FAR AI

Zachary Stein Perlman

Research @ AI Impacts. Currently thinking about what AI labs should do to improve safety.

Tech Flip Support

Isabella Hampton

Cillian Crosson

Executive Director at Training for Good

Aishwarya Gurung

My work focuses on predicting future tech-security issues relevant to policymaking. My research interests include food security, AI safety, effective giving, and longtermism. I hold a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Applied Mathematics and Business Administration from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and am working towards a Master's in Artificial Intelligence at The University of Bath. My native language is English and she is fluent in Nepali and Hindi.

Tiffany Lawrence

Compiler Engineer: developing Causal Inference Modeling Engine for decentralized coordination, computational ethics & insilico experiments

The OFFICIAL Manifund account, though separate from Manifund Bank. I don't really do anything for now.

Co-organizer of MIT Forecasting Group

Njombe Innovation Academy

Unleashing the potential of youth to transform challenges into opportunities

Martin Milbradt

Team Lead for LessWrong

Community manager at Manifold Markets. Ex pro-Hearthstone/SBB player.

Vincent Weisser

focused on alignment

Amritanshu Prasad

Upskilling in AI Safety; LTFF funded

Software Engineer

Yashvardhan Sharma

Community Building at Minerva University | Office Manager @ SERI MATS | Interested in AI Governance / Policy

Richard Ren Chen

sf-based, in tech industry, care about housing and policy

Working on movement building, entrepreneurship and operations for existential security

Anton Makiievskyi

Effective Altruist, former poker pro

Australian PhD candidate working on new tensor-network algorithms for simulating quantum systems. Transitioning into full-time technical AI safety research from 2024.

Graduate Student, Editor, and Writer

My academic background lies in urban remote sensing, CNN application in remote sensing, and geostatistics. I aim to specialise in data pipeline engineering, management, architectures. When I'm distracted, I enjoy a board range of other topics from philosophy to anthropology to various languages. Outside my professional life, I like to climb, travel, cook, and secretly write more code. I hope to marry Earth Observation, geospatial tech, and other alternative data with traditional professional services to tackle challenges in global development.

English Teacher in Seattle and almost everything that implies

Politics•Entertainment•Investing Currently work for a Manhattan PE firm

Bounties (viaprize.org), AI, Indigenous Rights, Charter Cities, Intentional Communities, Social Entrepreneurship, Juggling, Fire-eating

The official bank account for Manifund

OPTIC co-organizer, Brandeis EA organizer, studying CS + creative writing

Murali Vajapeyam

Software developer, accredited investor

Superforecaster, Forecasting Researcher (formerly Replication Markets, Good Judgment)

Behavioral Scientist, Social Psychologist, and Academic Lecturer.

Collin Lauri Juurakko

PhD in molecular genetics, independent researcher

Video producer/content creator

The timeless genie

Brennan Tierney

Development Consultant with the Back from the Brink campaign.

Entrepreneur in Residence at EV

Nicholas Charette

Interested in alignment, programming, markets, and economics.

Co-CEO & -Founder of Simon Institute for Longterm Governance

ML & Optimization researcher and PhD student @ EPFL

Peter Wildeford

Co-CEO Rethink Priorities

I'm an independent alignment researcher, self-taught in machine learning, convex optimization, and probability theory

President of UW Forecasting, OPTIC collaborator

Catalin Mitelut

AI safety researcher and neuroscientist

Johannes C. Mayer

AGInotkilleveryoneism

PhD Candidate, University of Amsterdam

Víctor Levoso Fernández

AI safety and mechanistic interpretability researcher.

Luke K. Freeman

software engineer and shoggoth inventor

I work a day job as an ML engineer at Amazon. All other time is spent spreading awareness of the alignment problem

Product Designer

Quinn Dougherty

Off and on AI alignment and epistemic public goods projects/thoughts. Philly but probably wash heights in NY soon.

Global moratorium on AGI, now. Founder of CEEALAR.

Earning to give physician and business owner with primary interest in animals

Veterinarian and Executive Director of Our Honor, a 501c3 non-profit that empowers veterinarians, veterinary students and animal professionals to speak their conscience and work for the best interest of others, no matter their species.

Work in EA and AI safety communication

Co-founder & Associate Scientist @PanLabs

Physicist focusing on interpretable ML for science @ MILA (Montréal)

Juliana Pires Martins

Professional conflict mediator

Community Manager @ SERI MATS

I'm an analytic philosopher working to bridge philosophy with the technical AI alignment community.

Final Year PhD student at Oxford, in AI Safety

Effective altruist interested in non-human welfare, longtermism, & moral circle expansion

I'm a fourth-year PhD student in computer science supervised by Yarin Gal (OATML) at the University of Oxford. My interests in machine learning include alignment, health applications, and data selection for large-scale deep learning. Before joining Oxford, I worked on learning human preferences and game-theoretical machine learning with David Duvenaud and Roger Grosse at Toronto’s Vector Institute, with the Center for Human-compatible AI at UC Berkeley, and at the Future of Humanity Institute a Oxford.

Former Chief Revenue Officer

Biologist and Engineer working to make replacement tissues/organs a reality

Michael Dello-Iacovo

Strategy Lead & Researcher at Sentience Institute

Student 'morality science' at the university of Ghent

Senior Data Scientist, Blue Rose Research

Jonathan Claybrough

AIS researcher and field builder

Carmen Csilla Medina

Director at Condor Initiative

All forecasting, all the time!

Undergraduate student at the University of Chicago studying philosophy and (either) cognitive science or economics.

Leo Heikiti Maeda Arruda

I work at Condor Initiative supporting Brazilian talents into the AI safety field. I am also a leader and supporter of EA Brazil.

Nicholas Gannon

I like building LLM-based autonomous agents

Michael Townsend

Researcher at Giving What We Can

Samuel Gélineau

Haskell programmer

My life's missions is to mitigate the risks that come with the creation of AGI

Building @Dragverse @MeTag | GenAI & LLMs | AGI in Funnel 🤖

SF Bay / Berkeley based (SW/Infra) engineer (funder? founder?)

Trying to figure out how this website works

Daniel Ajudeonu

Working significantly to reduce nuclear risks

Lead of mech interp team at Google DeepMind

AI Master's student @ Stanford

William MF Baird

AI Safety Advocate

Andrea Gallagher

UX Researcher interested in tools for group decision making

We are a new AI Safety Org, focusing on Conceptual Interpretability

Co-founder, Energize AI

Data Scientist, Effective Altruist, World Traveler

Charlie Molthrop

Builder, founder of Emile.chat

Hardware engineer

Nuhu Jacob serves as the Executive Director for the VERITAS with 12 years’ experience in projects. In this role, Mr. Jacob is responsible for business development, project preparation and evaluation, and project management of VERITAS activities in areas of operation, Tanzania Mainland. Mr. Jacob hold BSc and MSc in Agricultural Economics from Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) in Morogoro

Indie dev, Wanderer

Creator of A Happier World

Software Developer

Animal Welfare, EA

AI safety researcher at Stanford

Ross Rheingans-Yoo

Scott Alexander

Peter McCluskey

Elizabeth Van Nostrand

Raamin Mostaghimi

rolf.andreassen

Gajan Retnasaba

Benjamin Cosman

Isaac Carruthers

Domenic Denicola

Karthik Vemulapalli

Lucie Philippon

Stan van Wingerden

Austin Chen Test

Steven Robertson

Marcello Domenis

Michael Hendricks

Franklyn D'souza

Kayla Blomquist

Lorenzo Buonanno

Nicholas Doiron

Hfdidiurht Idifhthdjdi

Jared Showalter

Aleksei Besogonov

Helder S Ribeiro

Florence Hinder

Rahul Krishan Arora

Jackson Jesionowski

Bella Forristal

Anthony Giovannetti

Alcides Viamontes Esquivel

Rachel Weinberg (alt)

Sarmad Nasarullah

Sheikh Ashfaque Ali

Alex Calderwood

Mathias Kirk Bonde

Anthony Vallecillo

Linwood Pendleton

Tassilo Neubauer

Cameron McInroy

Valery Cherepanov

Robert Courtney

William Ehlhardt

Patrick Delaney

Christian Adorna

Michael Kockmeyer

Linda Linsefors

McKenna Fitzgerald

Chana Messinger

Pablo Stafforini

Spencer Greenberg

Jason Levy Møller

Albert Ramus Sidenius Garde

Nicholas Lindseth

Michael Engelhard

Johannes Treutlein

Christopher Painter

Callum McDougall

Thomas Kehrenberg

Bismarck Analysis

Michaël Trazzi

Bryce Robertson

Patricio Vercesi

Niko Rutherford

Alexandra Souly

Jeremy Campbell

Johnny Ten-Numbers

Jason Hoelscher-Obermaier

Lexley Maree Villasis

Code and Solder

Joaquin Lorenzo De Guzman

Marshall Polaris