Team

Team

Full-Time

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Ozzie Gooen

President & Researcher

Ozzie has a background in programming and research. He previously founded Guesstimate and worked at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford.

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Slava Matyuhin

Software Engineer

Slava is a software engineer for Squiggle and Metaforecast. He’s previously done rationalist and EA community organizing and teaching.

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Nuño Sempere

Researcher

Nuño is currently applying forecasting and quantification/evaluation systems to longtermism. He has a background in forecasting and independent research, and was a summer fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute. He also publishes the Forecasting newsletter.

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Nics Olayres

Executive Assistant

Nics has a degree in Applied Physics and experience in Materials Science and Engineering research, technical support, and teaching. She currently handles operational tasks at QURI.

Contractors

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Quinn Dougherty

Software Engineer

Quinn is focused on epistemic public goods and has some fingers in AGI alignment and community-building projects.

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Sam Nolan

Researcher

Sam is a software developer for Squiggle and writes and refines cost-effectiveness analyses using the language.

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Umur Ozkul

Software Engineer

Umur has a background in computer science, evolutionary programming, and functional language design. He is working on the Squiggle interpreter.

Board Members

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Ben Goldhaber

Board Member

Ben previously worked at Google and a variety of forecasting initiatives. He now is a strategy engineer at HASH.

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Andrew Critch

Board Member

Andrew is the CEO & Cofounder of Encultured AI. He previously worked as a research fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), an algorithmic trader at Jane Street, and a curriculum developer and cofounder at the Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR). Andrew also founded the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative and cofounded the Summer Program on Applied Rationality and Cognition (SPARC).

Collaborators

Elizabeth Van Nostrand

Research Contractor

Elizabeth works with us on select posts around evaluation. She has also been a key part of our Amplifying Generalist Research experiment.

Eli Lifland

Research collaborator

Eli is an AI safety researcher, and previously a top Metaculus and Foretell forecaster. He has collaborated with Nuño on various research and practical forecasting projects.

Peter Wildeford

Advisor

Peter is co-Executive Director of Rethink Priorities.

Misha Yagudin

Research collaborator

Misha is a founding partner at Arb, a research consultancy that has worked for Open Philanthropy, Jacob Steinhardt, and others. He started collaborating with Nuño following their FHI Summer Fellowship.