Meet our team

Current members

  • Ben Mueller

    Executive Director

  • Will Bradshaw

    Senior Research Scientist

    • NAO
    • Leadership
    • Operations

  • Seth Donoughe

    Research Scientist & AI Project Lead

    • Leadership
    • AI
    • Policy

  • Jeff Kaufman

    NAO Project Lead (Near-Term Detection)

    • NAO
    • Leadership

  • Mike McLaren

    NAO Project Lead (Robust Detection)

    • NAO
    • Leadership

  • Harmon Bhasin

    Research Assistant

  • Evan Fields

    Research Scientist

  • Jasper Götting

    Research Scientist

  • Simon Grimm

    Research Analyst

  • Nathan Helm-Burger

    Machine Learning Engineer

  • Olivia Hershey

    Research Scientist

  • Andrew Liu

    Research Scientist

  • Pedro Medeiros

    Research Scientist

  • Dan Rice

    Research Scientist

  • Elise Sanders

    Executive Assistant

    • Operations

  • Jon Sanders

    Research Scientist

  • Vanessa Smilanksy

    Research Scientist

  • Emily Soice

    Operations Specialist

  • Max Langenkamp

    Researcher

  • Sawyer Bernath

    Executive Director, Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

    • Board of Directors

  • Liv Boeree

    Cofounder, Raising for Effective Giving

    • Board of Directors

  • Christine Parthemore

    CEO, Council on Strategic Risks

    • Board of Directors

  • Michael Specter

    Staff Journalist. The New Yorker

    • Board of Directors

Past members

  • Anjali Gopal

    Research Scientist & AI Project Co-Lead

    • Policy
    • AI
    • Leadership

  • Ari Machtinger

    Research Technician

  • Janvi Ahuja

    DPhil Scholar, University of Oxford

    • NAO
    • Collaborators

  • Charlie Whittaker

    Fellow, Imperial College

  • Tiffany Tzeng

    Operations Manager

  • Jolien Sweere

    Research Scientist

  • Vaishnav Sunil

    Project Lead, Personal Protective Equipment

    • Policy

  • David Sliney

    Project Consultant

  • Kevin Esvelt

    Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab

  • Lenni Justen

    Graduate Student, Sculpting Evolution Group and DRAPER