Bio

I focus on system-level interventions to make AI more effective and beneficial. To that end, I lead Credo AI's Data Science team, where I help organizations govern their AI systems responsibly. I am motivated by AI's transformative potential for our society, and the great risks that derive from that power. I worry about AI risk both on an existential level, and as a socio-technical problem. The former is often associated with AGI, but the latter risks only need current approaches operating unchecked at scale. While I am inspired by the positive consequences of AI, I believe our society currently underinvests in risk mitigation and focus my time there. I am a cognitive neuroscientist and psychologist, and have been a researcher at Stanford, the NIH, Columbia and Brown. Initially investigating decision making, I later focused on meta-scientific questions involving the synthesis and distillation of large bodies of psychological research findings. My worldview has been influenced by the Effective Altruism and AI Safety communities. I am a community organizer for EA San Francisco, focused on supporting and empowering others who seek to positively impact the world through their careers, charity and other actions. If you are reading this far, know that outside of these serious things I highly value play! You can often find me juggling, drawing, making music and exploring trails and ideas with others.