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Brussels, BE

• Spearhead research efforts on EU AI policy, having raised awareness of general-purpose AI in the EU AI Act for nearly 3 years.
• Run the biweekly EU AI Act Newsletter with over 32,000 subscribers, and have set up a website that is one of the top hits if you search for the AI Act.

• Researched the latest AI policy initiatives in the European Union, such as the Artificial Intelligence Act and AI Liability Directive. Key research projects included drafting regulatory requirements for general purpose.

• Research the assessment and mitigation of systemic risk posed by general-purpose AI. Previous academic work includes papers on AI governance in journals such as Big Data and Cognitive Computing, and Digital Society.

• In this fellowship, participants will be introduced to the ideas in the Austrian, Virginia, and Bloomington schools of political economy. The purpose of the fellowship is to understand the causes behind policy and.

• Work on AI standards in relation to the EU AI Act in working groups.
• Working group 1 focuses on AI standards strategy, group 2 focuses on operational aspects of AI, group 3 on technical aspects of engineering for AI, and group 4 on foundational and societal aspects of AI.

• The Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) is a multi-stakeholder initiative which aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice on AI by supporting cutting-edge research and applied activities on.
• The working group on the future of work is mandated to conduct critical technical analyses on how the deployment of AI can affect workers and working environments as well as how workers and employers can better design.

• International Strategy Forum is hosted by Schmidt Futures, a nonprofit by ex-CEO of Google Eric Schmidt, in partnership with European Council on Foreign Relations
• The Forum seeks to bring together the next generation of problem solvers with extraordinary potential in geopolitics, innovation, and public leadership to strengthen progress and security amid technological innovation.

• The Global Priorities Fellowship was set up to create a community of early-career researchers interested in global priorities research, facilitate connections and research exchange between participants, and provide.
• Focused on the impact of AI-induced automation on the labor market and trying to learn what the importance of large-scale automation could be from the perspective of longtermism.

• The World Economic Forum’s Global AI Council (GAIC), a multi-stakeholder body that includes leaders from the public and private sectors, civil society, and academia, started working on an initiative called Positive AI.
• Worked together with Professor Stuart Russell, Research Fellow Daniel Susskind, and others on a white paper putting forward positive visions for a future economy driven by AI.
• The report can be found here: https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Positive_AI_Economic_Futures_2021.pdf

• Supported with AI governance related tasks in the European ecosystem, including help in drafting reports, writing a newsletter, organizing Excel documents, and providing research support.
• Worked on projects related to building a database of international AI policy guidelines and contributed to the EuropeanAI Newsletter with the latest developments in AI in Europe.

• Contributed to the development of the research methodology used for conducting expert interviews and conducted several interviews together with the EU Commission’s working group led by Professor Virginia Dignum.
• Wrote a report on the ethics guidelines for Trustworthy AI that was delivered to the High-Level Expert Group on AI, which provided an input to the White Paper on AI and updated ethics guidelines.

• Founded an NGO focused on educating people about evidence-driven interventions for the good of society, including in areas such as artificial intelligence, global poverty, animal welfare, and global priorities.
• Raised over 45,000 € in competitive grants to work full-time and grew the community from zero to over several hundred people and 10 volunteers.
• Helped to raise over 100,000 € for high-impact charities in expected donations and supported dozens of people with placement efforts in high impact careers.

• Wrote articles on topics such as existential risks, artificial intelligence, global priorities, animal welfare, health, science, philosophy, rationality, happiness, and effective altruism.
• Managed my own work, worked independently under quick deadlines, prioritized high impact opinion articles and feature stories.

• Founded a website delivering evidence-based information about exercise, nutrition, and lifestyle that reached more than 165,000 people.
• Consulted the gene technology company IB Genetics on sports science, the beverage company A. Le Coq on nutritional supplements, and wrote a bestselling book with the publisher Cum Laude on core training.
• Developed a Youtube channel with about 100,000 views supporting our audience’s training sessions.

Master'S Degree, Philosophy And Public Policy

• LSE has been ranked second in the world - and top in Europe - in social science and management subjects for several consecutive years in.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Unfinished, Economics

Worked on issues related to large-scale AI-induced automation and unemployment, but dropped out of the PhD to work full-time on the first.

Bachelor'S Degree, Philosophy And Economics, Cum Laude

• Graduated cum laude, valedictorian. • Courses in addition to Philosophy: Quantitative Data Analysis, Optimization in Economics.