Meet Our Team
Director and Research Lead
Owain is also an affiliate at the CHAI (UC Berkeley) and was previously based at the University of Oxford at the Future of Humanity Institute. He earned his PhD at MIT. He also worked at Ought, where he still serve on the Board of Directors.
Jan Betley
Researcher
Jan worked as a software developer for over a decade before shifting to AI safety in 2023. He is an ARENA and Astra Fellowship alumni, interested in anything related to out-of-context reasoning in LLMs.
Researcher
James spent 3 years in a startup developing language models. He then started doing AI Safety Research under MATS in 2023, and is interested in truthfulness, and reasoning.
Owain's Past Mentees
Name
Year
Current Role
Stephanie Lin
2021-2022
Research Engineer, OpenAI (Superalignment Team)
Alexander Meinke
2023
Apollo Research
Mikita Balesni
2023
Apollo Research