Head of Community at FAR AI
Founder at Arkose
Hello, I'm Vael! I'm interested in improving the safety of AI systems to reduce potential large-scale risks from advanced AI. My work focuses on "field-building": enabling and growing the technical (research and engineering) and governance communities working on AI safety.
To this end, I work as Head of Community at FAR AI. I also founded and currently advise Arkose, an AI safety field-building nonprofit that provides informational resources to machine learning researchers and engineers looking to become more involved in the field. If that's you, feel free to request a call from Arkose for more targeted advice during this transition.
Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, as a fellow with HAI and CISAC. There, I interviewed AI researchers on their perspectives on current AI and the future of AI, with a focus on risks from advanced systems.
Finally, I completed my PhD in Tom Griffiths's Computational Cognitive Science Lab at UC Berkeley / Princeton University, working on computational models of social cognition.
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