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Team

Daniel Kokotajlo, Executive Director: Daniel previously worked as a governance researcher at OpenAI on scenario planning. In 2021, he wrote What 2026 Looks Like, an article similar to our current report.

Eli Lifland, Researcher: Eli co-founded and advises Sage, which builds interactive AI explainers on AI Digest. He previously worked on Elicit, an AI-powered research assistant, and did research on language models including creating TextAttack, a Python framework for adversarial examples in text. He also placed first on the RAND Forecasting Initiative all-time leaderboard.

Thomas Larsen, Researcher: Thomas previously founded the Center for AI Policy, an AI safety advocacy organization, and worked on AI safety research at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute.