Team

Ozzie Gooen

President & Researcher

LinkedIn

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

Slava Matyuhin

Software Engineer

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

Nuño Sempere

Researcher

Website, EA Forum

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.

Quinn Dougherty

Software Engineer

EA Forum, Website

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

Sam Nolan

Researcher

EA Forum

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

Umur Ozkul

Software Engineer

LinkedIn

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

Ben Goldhaber

Board Member

LinkedIn

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

Andrew Critch

Board Member

LinkedIn

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).

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.

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Eli Lifland

Research collaborator

Eli is a research engineer at Ought, where he works on its research assistant, Elicit. He is a top Metaculus and Foretell forecaster, and has collaborated with Nuño on various research and practical forecasting projects.

Website

Peter Wildeford

Advisor

Peter is co-Executive Director of Rethink Priorities.

Website

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 coincided with Nuño at their FHI Summer Fellowship, and has since continued collaborating with him.