Current:

• Director and Co-Founder of “Principles of Intelligent Behaviour in Biological and Social Systems” (pibbss.ai)

• Research Affiliate and PhD student with the Alignment of Complex Systems group, Charles University (acsresearch.org)

Main research interests:

• How can a naturalized understanding of intelligent behavior (across systems, scales and substrates) be translated into concrete progress towards making AI systems safe and beneficial?

• What are scientific and epistemological challenges specific to making progress on questions in AI risk, governance and safety? And how can we overcome them?

Other interests:

• Alternative AI paradigms and their respective capabilities-, safety-, and governability-profiles

• The dual (descriptive-prescriptive) nature of the study of agency and the sciences of the artificial

• Pluralist epistemic perspective on the landscape of AI risks

• The “think” interface between technical and governance aspects of AI alignment

• ...and more general ideas from philosophy & history of science, political philosophy, complex systems studies, and broadly speaking enactivist theories of cognition, … — as they are relevance to questions in AI risk/​governance/​safety

Going back further, I have also spent a bunch of time thinking about how (bounded) minds make sense of and navigate a (complex) world (i.e. rationality, critical thinking, etc.). I have several years of experience in research organization, among others from working at FHI, CHERI, Epistea, etc. I have a background in International Relations, and spend large parts of of 2017-2019 doing complex systems inspired research on understanding group decision making and political processes with the aim of building towards an appropriate framework for “Longterm Governance”.