- Research areas include climate change, pandemics, societal collapse, and the security implications of AI
- Key publications include 'Filling gaps in trustworthy development of AI' (Science) and 'The malicious use of AI: forecasting, prevention & mitigation'
Research Experience
- 2017 - present: Academic Project Manager, Centre for the Future of Intelligence & Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge
- 2014 - 2017: Senior Parliamentary Researcher, UK Parliament
Education
- 2021 - present: DPhil in International Relations, University of Oxford
- 2020 - 2021: MSc in Politics Research, University of Oxford
- 2009 - 2013: BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE), University of Oxford
Background
AI governance & policy researcher, University of Cambridge. Mainly works on the societal and security implications of artificial intelligence (AI).
Miscellany
Worked in UK politics as the Senior Parliamentary Researcher to a Labour MP in the Shadow Cabinet, and was seconded to several general election and referendum campaigns. Was a Policy Associate at the Global Priorities Project (University of Oxford) and the first Development Director of the Centre for Effective Altruism.