“The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology"

— Edward Osborne Wilson


I’m an AI Governance researcher at the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI), focusing on Compute Governance. We are building a global research community, dedicated to helping humanity navigate the transition to a world with advanced AI.

My research interests include the role of compute in the AI production function, the compute supply chain, forecasting emerging technologies, and the security of AI systems. My time is split into the strategic and technical analysis of the compute governance domain and policy engagement with GovAI’s policy team. I’m trying to answer questions such as In which worlds is compute a particular promising node for AI governance? or What are our desired AI (compute) governance regimes, and which hardware-enabled mechanism could support these regimes?

On the side, I’m doing strategy for Epoch. We’re investigating and forecasting the development of advanced AI. I’m responsible for extracting the strategy and policy implications of Epoch’s work for the AI governance community.

I’m also a Pro Forecaster at INFER Pub, member of the expert group on OECD.AI Expert Group on AI Compute and Climate, and a steering group member at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change’s National Compute Index.

I got a background in Computer Engineering. You can find more about my professional background on LinkedIn and my publications on Google Scholar.




I see a big challenge in aligning technology with our best interest.

Many of the dangers we face indeed arise from science and technology - but, more fundamentally, because we have become powerful without becoming commensurately wise. The world-altering powers that technology has delivered into our hands now require a degree of consideration and foresight that has never before been asked for us.

— Carl Sagan

Feel free to contact me with the mentioned contact details in the footer.


Previously

I’m usually pretty good at keeping myself busy. In the past, I’ve been building a community dedicated to inspiring and assisting people to use evidence and reason to achieve their altruistic goals, done research in neuroscience, explored wireless and embedded systems, investigated charities with legacies.now, explored Amazon from the inside, explored morality during my studies, became a whale watching guide, brought ML to resource-constrained devices, fixed windshields on Kauai, measured radiated spurious emissions of 5G, cuddled with a bunch of dogs, and, lastly, failed a start-up on particulate sensors with friends of mine.

This is not the correct order and some of those things happened at the same time – I’ll leave this to you.

updated feb 2023