Catherine Brewer Email and Phone Number

Funding work aimed at reducing risks from advanced AI systems.

Research project on side effect penalisation for RL agents.Supervised by Charlie Griffin and Dr Alessandro Abate.

Research project on case studies of rapid US regulatory change. Contributed to memos for the UK government.Supervised by Michael Aird (RAND, IAPS).

Research project investigating inductive bias in deep neural networks (at AI Safety Hub, now LASR Labs).

I ran Oxford's student AI safety group. This included managing a £10k budget, leading a team of 5, arranging an 8-week seminar series, and co-organising our reading groups. Under my leadership we ran a successful AI safety seminar series averaging 35+ attendees per talk, hosted 8 speakers from frontier labs and academia, and ran 9 reading groups for 70+ participants.

Wrote OxAI's weekly newsletter (2000+ recipients). Founding member of Oxford's AI safety group, ran outreach and contributed to events.

Predicting applications of AI to state surveillance.Supervised by Cecil Abungu (University of Cambridge).

Researched the insurance market of the 19th-century British slave trade for "Atlas of Finance" (Yale University Press, 2024).

While in high school, researched and wrote educational resources covering A Level History and beyond. Selected as the inaugural writer of the month from a team of 60+.

Selected for RAL's nationwide physics internship programme. Wrote an error reporter for the ATLAS code base running at CERN.