Our mission is to direct technological development towards the collective good.
Team
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Co-Founder & Executive Director
Divya Siddarth is the executive director and co-founder of CIP. Previously, she has been a political economist and social technologist in Microsoft’s Office of the CTO, the AI and Democracy lead at the U.K.’s AI Safety Institute, and held positions at the Ethics in AI Institute at Oxford, the Ostrom Workshop, and the Harvard Safra Center. She graduated from Stanford with a B.S. in Computational Decision Analysis in 2018
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Co-Founder & Research Director
Saffron Huang is the co-founder & research director of CIP. She was previously a research engineer at DeepMind working on topics such as multi-agent RL and language models, and has worked on technology governance research with organizations. She co-founded Kernel Magazine.
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Treasurer
Austin is a technologist and product manager; his day job is working on language models at Google. He is interested in technical problems with novel societal implications. His past work includes Bluetooth-based exposure notifications during COVID-19, data usage for training generative models, and privacy preserving machine learning.
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Research Lead, AI and Collective Intelligence
Flynn is a researcher and practitioner who has collaborated with organisations in over 50 countries and worked with government, civil society, and industry. He’s worked in the Alan Turing Institute’s Public Policy pogramme, was in the founding team for Iswe Foundation and his central work on the first ever global citizens’ assembly laid the groundwork for future international deliberations, leading him to represent his work at the UN’s COP26 summit. As an independent researcher Flynn also recently received a very competitive grant from OpenAI to help design innovative approaches to utilising collective intelligence in AI development.
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Affiliate
Teddy Collins is a researcher and policymaker. He focuses on how machine learning can help build better systems for democratic governance and collective intelligence. Teddy is currently on leave from CIP in the US government. Previously, he worked at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where, as Assistant Director for Technology Strategy, he oversaw a portfolio of issues related to AI and national security. Prior to that, he worked at DeepMind as a Research Scientist, leading the Meta-Research team. He currently lives in London.
Advisory Council
Community Council
Our Community Council is an evolving group of allies and fellow travelers working on aligned projects. As part of catalyzing and supporting an ecosystem of change, we hold quarterly calls, share our work, and support each other’s efforts. CIP would not exist without the care and brilliance of our community; our work is itself very much a product of collective intelligence.
