Connor Leahy

Connor Leahy is a brilliant computer scientist who is on the front line of AI, or more accurately — given the speed with which it is developing — of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) or even ASI (Artificial Superintelligence): the AI systems that are capable of learning and surpassing human intelligence. According to Leahy, humanity might face nothing less than extinction if these systems get out of human control. Dedicating his life to solving the problems of AI control, Leahy co-founded Conjecture, of which he is the CEO. He is advisor to ControlAI, an advocacy non-profit working to ban the development of uncontrolled superintelligence, and reaches large audiences speaking and writing on AI control thanks to his convincing and wise insights. Leahy was the co-founder and head of EleutherAI, a decentralized grassroots collective of volunteer researchers, engineers and developers focused on AI alignment, scaling, and open-source AI research.