Meet our team

  • Kevin Esvelt

    Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab

  • Ben Mueller

    Chief Operating Officer

  • Will Bradshaw

    Senior Research Scientist

    • NAO
    • Leadership
    • Operations

  • Seth Donoughe

    Research Scientist & AI Project Lead

    • Leadership
    • AI
    • Policy

  • Jeff Kaufman

    Staff Software Engineer

    • NAO
    • Leadership

  • Mike McLaren

    Senior Research Scientist

    • NAO
    • Leadership

  • Harmon Bhasin

    Research Assistant

  • Evan Fields

    Research Scientist

  • Jasper Götting

    Research Scientist

  • Simon Grimm

    Research Associate

  • 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

  • Emily Soice

    Operations Associate

  • Vaishnav Sunil

    Project Lead, Personal Protective Equipment

    • Policy

  • Jolien Sweere

    Research Scientist

  • Tiffany Tzeng

    Operations Manager

  • Lenni Justen

    Graduate Student, Sculpting Evolution Group and DRAPER

  • Max Langenkamp

    Researcher

  • David Sliney

    Project Consultant

  • Sawyer Bernath

    Executive Director, Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

    • Board of Directors