President

Hi, I'm James, and I'm at Balliol studying for an MPhil in Economics. Before this, I graduated from Cambridge (also economics), where I became concerned about extreme AI risks through the effective altruism community in 2022. I was an ERA:AI fellow in 2024, and have also worked in a think tank, economic consultancy and quant trading firm. My research has focused on incentive problems and "market failures" across AI governance and strategy.  Super happy to chat about OAISI, AI risk and economics in general, especially if you're from an EA, policy or less technical background!

Programme Manager

Hi, I’m Juliana! I’m a Programme Manager at OAISI, where I work across operations, community building, and programme design to support Oxford’s growing AI safety ecosystem. Previously, I studied Philosophy at Queen’s University in Canada with a focus on philosophy of science, mind, AI, and logic - topics which remain reflective of my interests. I’m always keen to connect with others thinking about AI safety (especially from a high-level perspective), but I’d also be excited to chat all things music, personal psychology insights, or whatever else you’ve been pondering lately.

Advisor

Hey – I’m Rohan, a third-year undergraduate studying PPE at Merton!

Last year I helped run OAISI, and I’m now still involved as an advisor. Currently I’m working on investing & strategy at Macroscopic Ventures, a non-profit grantmaker focused on AI safety & preventing dystopian futures, where I’m especially interested in how superintelligence might affect different parts of the economy. Outside of AI, I'm a big fan of bouldering and gardening, and I'd be excited to chat about any & all of the above!

Committee Member

Hi, I'm Matthew! I'm a DPhil in Computer Science at Magdalen. I came to Oxford to deepen my understanding of technology and its future and to broaden my understanding of society and its history, in order to help these things work better together. My current technical research is on understanding emergent agency in reinforcement learning. In the past, I have worked on developmental interpretability and singular learning theory, goal misgeneralisation, neural network geometry, and inverse reinforcement learning. I'm excited to meet students and researchers across Oxford who are studying and working on all topics relevant to the future of AI and society.

Committee Member

Hi, I'm Louis! I've recently graduated from the Master's in Computer Science and Philosophy at Oxford. My main interests include AI [control / safety / ethics], game theory, and cooperative AI. I've previously worked on the following projects (in order of recency): agentic monitoring for AI control; cooperation and alignment in multi-agent games; AI-Control games; and behavioural evaluations of deception in LLMs.

I'm always up for talking about all things CS, philosophy (particularly AI-relevant topics but also continental philosophy), and other entirely-not-work-related stuff like music and games!