Luke Drago was previously the CEO of Workshop Labs and is now at Thinking Machines. Before either, he ran AI Governance and the Economics of Transformative AI at BlueDot Impact. He served on Encode’s leadership team, where his policy work was endorsed by senior AI professionals and former world leaders. He studied History & Politics at Oxford.

He writes on his Substack.

Rudolf Laine was previously the CTO of Workshop Labs and is now at Thinking Machines. Before that, he suspended his machine learning PhD at Oxford, was the lead author and technical team manager on the Situational Awareness Dataset, published in NeurIPS and used in OpenAI's pre-deployment testing. He worked on ML research with Owain Evans's group, and participated in the MATS research program. He completed a bachelor’s and research-focused master’s in computer science at Cambridge.

He writes on No Set Gauge, and he occasionally posts on X.

About this project

We wrote this essay series and then tried to tackle the issues head-on with Workshop Labs PBC, a public benefit corporation trying to keep people integral to the economy by helping them impart their skills to verifiably-private AIs that they control and that are aligned specifically to them.

Workshop Labs later joined Thinking Machines, where the mission to build AI compatible with human freedoms and institutions continues.

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