PEOPLE TO KEEP TABS ON

Follow the people shaping AI safety.

Build a feed that spans technical research, independent evaluations, AI control, governance, forecasting, and fast-moving field commentary.

CURATED DIRECTORY

16 useful voices to start with.

Search by name, organization, or topic. Every X link opens the person’s public profile directly.

16 people in this view

Neel Nanda

@NeelNanda5

Research leadGoogle DeepMind

Mechanistic interpretability, practical research walkthroughs, and ways for new researchers to get oriented.

InterpretabilityAlignment

Rohin Shah

@rohinmshah

Research scientistGoogle DeepMind

Alignment research, agent security, and clear synthesis of new technical work across the field.

AlignmentAI control & security

Jan Leike

@janleike

Alignment researcherAnthropic

Frontier-lab alignment research, scalable oversight, and automated methods for making safety research move faster.

Alignment

Paul Christiano

@paulfchristiano

Executive directorAlignment Research Center

Scalable oversight, reinforcement learning from human feedback, alignment strategy, and risk estimates.

AlignmentForecasting

Beth Barnes

@BethMayBarnes

Founder and CEOMETR

Independent frontier-model evaluations and measurements of whether models can complete longer, autonomous tasks.

EvaluationsForecasting

Marius Hobbhahn

@MariusHobbhahn

Co-founder and CEOApollo Research

Scheming, deception, model monitoring, and independent evaluations of frontier AI systems.

EvaluationsAlignment

Adam Gleave

@ARGleave

Co-founder and CEOFAR.AI

Robustness, red teaming, external scrutiny, and moving promising safety research into wider use.

EvaluationsAI control & security

Dan Hendrycks

@DanHendrycks

Executive directorCenter for AI Safety

Safety benchmarks, catastrophic risk, robustness, and research intended to make advanced systems more reliable.

EvaluationsAI control & security

Ryan Greenblatt

@ryan_greenblatt

Chief scientistRedwood Research

AI control, capability elicitation, empirical threat models, and forecasts about advanced AI behavior.

AI control & securityEvaluations

Buck Shlegeris

@bshlgrs

CEORedwood Research

AI control, security research, technical strategy, and candid discussion of research bets and field needs.

AI control & securityField commentary

Helen Toner

@hlntnr

AI policy researcherCSET

AI governance, external oversight, transparency, and the national-security dimensions of advanced AI.

Governance

Miles Brundage

@Miles_Brundage

FounderAVERI

AI policy, verification, auditing, responsible deployment, and the institutions needed around frontier systems.

GovernanceEvaluations

Jack Clark

@jackclarkSF

Co-founder and head of policyAnthropic

AI policy, compute, research trends, and a broad weekly view of developments through Import AI.

GovernanceField commentary

Ajeya Cotra

@ajeya_cotra

ResearcherMETR

AI timelines, risk models, frontier-risk reporting, and careful thinking about research prioritization.

ForecastingEvaluations

Jacob Steinhardt

@JacobSteinhardt

Associate professorUC Berkeley

Machine-learning robustness, evaluations, forecasting, and technically grounded analysis of frontier systems.

EvaluationsForecasting

Zvi Mowshowitz

@TheZvi

Independent writerDon’t Worry About the Vase

Fast-moving synthesis of AI policy, lab news, safety arguments, and debates happening across the field.

Field commentaryGovernance

Affiliations and links last reviewed August 2026. This directory is editorial and does not imply endorsement.

FOLLOW THE WORK, TOO

See where these ideas become projects.

Browse organizations, current initiatives, and open roles across the AI safety ecosystem.

Explore organizations →Browse opportunities →