Upcoming AI safety people

The information on this page was last updated in 2018.

This page tracks people who are currently training to work on AI safety, but have not held positions at organizations or published work. The idea is to stay “one step ahead” by knowing which people will likely enter the field. Since the data here is not intended to be permanent, it is simply stored on this web page rather than being entered into the database.

Name Type of position Source Notes
David Kristoffersson Technical research? Source He might already hold a position, seeing that his post is from 2015.
elriggs Technical research? Source
Andrew Quinn Technical research? Source
Alexander Matt Turner (TurnTrout) Technical research Source GitHub account
Sudhanshu Kasewa Private correspondence
Christopher Galias Technical research? Source
Nandi Schoots Technical research? Source
Karl Koch Technical research? Source
Markus Salmela Technical research? Source
Justin Shovelain Technical research? Source
Vojta Kovarik Technical research? Source
Igor Sieradzki Technical research? Source
Michael Świętek Technical research? Source
James Bell Technical research? Source
Joar Skalse Technical research? Source
Karol Kubicki Technical research? Source
Gavin Leech Technical research? Source
Xavier O’Rourke Source Attended AISFP.
Eric Bruylant Source Attended 2015 MIRI Summer Fellows program.
Pasha Kamyshev Source Apparently attended MIRI Summer Fellows program.
Johnathan Lee Source Apparently attended MIRI Summer Fellows program.
Zachary Vance Source Apparently attended MIRI Summer Fellows program.
Vladimir Mikulik Technical research? Source Admin of a “technical AI safety discussion group” in Oxford.
Joar Skalse Technical research? Source Admin of a “technical AI safety discussion group” in Oxford.

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