Oliver Zhang
Co-founder and Managing Director of the Center for AI Safety; co-founder of the MATS program
- Co-founder and Managing Director, Center for AI Safety (CAIS)12
Oliver Zhang is a co-founder and the Managing Director of the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), a research nonprofit that works to reduce societal-scale risks from AI. Zhang previously co-founded the MATS program, which mentors early-career researchers in AI safety.12
Career
Zhang co-founded the MATS program, which mentors early-career researchers in AI safety. Zhang is a co-founder of the Center for AI Safety and serves as its Managing Director, alongside Dan Hendrycks as Executive and Research Director.12
CAIS describes its work as research, field-building and advocacy to reduce AI risk, including a compute cluster that supports outside research labs, field-building projects, and collaborations and advising.2
Work
MATS program (external site: safe.ai)
Co-founded the MATS program, which has mentored early-career researchers who went on to work on AI safety at organizations including Anthropic, DeepMind, the UK AI Safety Institute and OpenAI.1
Other documented roles
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- Co-founder, MATS program1
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