AI Safety & Ethics
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Ajeya Cotra 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics OpenAI researcher 
Alex Hanna 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics AI researcher, The AI Con co-author, algorithmic auditing expert Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) Amanda Askell 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Anthropic researcher 
Anthropic Andrew Imbrie 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Georgetown CSET researcher, The New Fire co-author 
Anil Kapoor 🇮🇳 AI Safety & Ethics AI Deepfake Legal Precedent 
Arvind Narayanan 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Princeton professor Ben Buchanan 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Georgetown professor, The New Fire author, AI security expert Beth Barnes 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics METR founder 
METR Branka Panic AI Safety & Ethics AI for Peace co-author, AI governance researcher 
Cathy O'Neil 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Author & consultant 
Chris Lehane 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Chief Global Affairs Officer (head of global policy) at OpenAI, leading the company's government engagement and AI policy strategy. Veteran political operative from the Clinton administration and former global policy head at Airbnb. 
OpenAI 
Cynthia Dwork 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Harvard professor Daniel Kokotajlo 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Former OpenAI researcher Daniela Amodei 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Anthropic Co-founder, AI Safety Anthropic 
Eliezer Yudkowsky 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics MIRI founder 
Emily Bender 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics UW professor, AI ethics researcher, "stochastic parrots" concept 
Finale Doshi-Velez 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Harvard professor 
Francesca Bria 🇮🇹 AI Safety & Ethics Digital Rights, Tech Policy Francesca Rossi 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics IBM AI Ethics, Constraint Programming Helen Toner 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Georgetown CSET 
Henna Virkkunen 🇫🇮 AI Safety & Ethics Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for Technological Sovereignty, Security and Democracy and Commissioner for Digital and Frontier Technologies since December 2024. Former MEP (2014-2024) and Finnish government minister. 
Henry Kissinger 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Former US Secretary of State, Genesis AI book co-author 
Holden Karnofsky 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Open Philanthropy Anthropic Iason Gabriel 🇬🇧 AI Safety & Ethics DeepMind researcher 
Google DeepMind 
Jack Clark 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Co-founder and Head of Policy of Anthropic. Writes the widely-read Import AI newsletter and was a founding member of Stanford's AI Index and the US National AI Advisory Committee. Anthropic 
Jade Leung 🇬🇧 AI Safety & Ethics AI Governance Research OpenAI Jan Leike 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Anthropic alignment lead Anthropic 
Joanna Bryson 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics AI Ethics Research, AI Governance 
Joy Buolamwini 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Algorithmic Justice League Lilian Weng 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Former VP of Research and Safety at OpenAI, where she led the Safety Systems team, and author of the widely read AI research blog Lil'Log. Co-founded Thinking Machines Lab in 2025. 
Thinking Machines Lab 
Lina Khan 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics FTC Chair Marius Hobbhahn 🇬🇧 AI Safety & Ethics Co-founder and CEO of Apollo Research, founded in 2023, specialising in AI model evaluations and deception/scheming research. Apollo partnered with OpenAI to evaluate the o1 model and published early evidence that frontier models can scheme. 
Apollo Research 
Max Tegmark 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics MIT professor 
Meredith Whittaker 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Signal President, Privacy Technology 
Nick Bostrom 🇬🇧 AI Safety & Ethics Oxford professor Paige Arthur 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics AI for Peace co-author, international relations expert Paul Christiano 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics AI Alignment researcher Rohin Shah 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics AGI Safety & Alignment team lead at Google DeepMind, AI alignment research Google DeepMind 
Roman V. Yampolskiy 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics University of Louisville professor, AI safety researcher 
Ruha Benjamin 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Princeton professor Sara Hooker 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics AI safety research, Cohere for AI head, model interpretability 
Cohere 
Sarah Bird 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Microsoft AI ethics, responsible AI product lead Microsoft AI Soenke Ziesche 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics AI safety researcher, Considerations on the AI Endgame co-author 
Stuart J. Russell 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics AI Safety Research, Human Compatible AI 
Timnit Gebru 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics DAIR founder Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) 
Virginia Dignum 🇸🇪 AI Safety & Ethics Umeå professor 
Zeynep Tufekci 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Columbia professor
Alex Hanna 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics AI researcher, The AI Con co-author, algorithmic auditing expert Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) Amanda Askell 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Anthropic researcher Anthropic Andrew Imbrie 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Georgetown CSET researcher, The New Fire co-author Anil Kapoor 🇮🇳 AI Safety & Ethics AI Deepfake Legal Precedent Arvind Narayanan 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Princeton professor Ben Buchanan 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Georgetown professor, The New Fire author, AI security expert Beth Barnes 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics METR founder METR Branka Panic AI Safety & Ethics AI for Peace co-author, AI governance researcher Cathy O'Neil 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Author & consultant Chris Lehane 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Chief Global Affairs Officer (head of global policy) at OpenAI, leading the company's government engagement and AI policy strategy. Veteran political operative from the Clinton administration and former global policy head at Airbnb. OpenAI Cynthia Dwork 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Harvard professor Daniel Kokotajlo 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Former OpenAI researcher Daniela Amodei 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Anthropic Co-founder, AI Safety Anthropic Eliezer Yudkowsky 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics MIRI founder Emily Bender 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics UW professor, AI ethics researcher, "stochastic parrots" concept Finale Doshi-Velez 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Harvard professor Francesca Bria 🇮🇹 AI Safety & Ethics Digital Rights, Tech Policy Francesca Rossi 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics IBM AI Ethics, Constraint Programming Helen Toner 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Georgetown CSET Henna Virkkunen 🇫🇮 AI Safety & Ethics Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for Technological Sovereignty, Security and Democracy and Commissioner for Digital and Frontier Technologies since December 2024. Former MEP (2014-2024) and Finnish government minister. Henry Kissinger 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Former US Secretary of State, Genesis AI book co-author Holden Karnofsky 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Open Philanthropy Anthropic Iason Gabriel 🇬🇧 AI Safety & Ethics DeepMind researcher Google DeepMind Jack Clark 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Co-founder and Head of Policy of Anthropic. Writes the widely-read Import AI newsletter and was a founding member of Stanford's AI Index and the US National AI Advisory Committee. Anthropic Jade Leung 🇬🇧 AI Safety & Ethics AI Governance Research OpenAI Jan Leike 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Anthropic alignment lead Anthropic Joanna Bryson 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics AI Ethics Research, AI Governance Joy Buolamwini 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Algorithmic Justice League Lilian Weng 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Former VP of Research and Safety at OpenAI, where she led the Safety Systems team, and author of the widely read AI research blog Lil'Log. Co-founded Thinking Machines Lab in 2025. Thinking Machines Lab Lina Khan 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics FTC Chair Marius Hobbhahn 🇬🇧 AI Safety & Ethics Co-founder and CEO of Apollo Research, founded in 2023, specialising in AI model evaluations and deception/scheming research. Apollo partnered with OpenAI to evaluate the o1 model and published early evidence that frontier models can scheme. Apollo Research Max Tegmark 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics MIT professor Meredith Whittaker 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Signal President, Privacy Technology Nick Bostrom 🇬🇧 AI Safety & Ethics Oxford professor Paige Arthur 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics AI for Peace co-author, international relations expert Paul Christiano 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics AI Alignment researcher Rohin Shah 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics AGI Safety & Alignment team lead at Google DeepMind, AI alignment research Google DeepMind Roman V. Yampolskiy 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics University of Louisville professor, AI safety researcher Ruha Benjamin 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Princeton professor Sara Hooker 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics AI safety research, Cohere for AI head, model interpretability Cohere Sarah Bird 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Microsoft AI ethics, responsible AI product lead Microsoft AI Soenke Ziesche 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics AI safety researcher, Considerations on the AI Endgame co-author Stuart J. Russell 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics AI Safety Research, Human Compatible AI Timnit Gebru 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics DAIR founder Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) Virginia Dignum 🇸🇪 AI Safety & Ethics Umeå professor Zeynep Tufekci 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Columbia professor