bridging inferential gaps to defeat bounded rationality
co-founder of the simon institute for longterm governance. we do frontier ai diplomacy—helping china and the west exchange on ai governance, making frontier developments understood across geopolitical fault-lines.
in practice: we supply diplomats, policymakers and international civil servants to with the technical expertise and diplomatic insight on frontier AI that they need to make better decisions and write better texts. the goal is productive communication between those building the most powerful technology in history and those tasked with governing its impacts—across jurisdictions that don't (yet) believe they have shared goals.
we started in biosecurity policy before covid—organizing side events at the biological weapons convention, designing tabletop exercises, modelling attention dynamics. when covid validated our unique value add, we launched the institute. then chatgpt validated our focus on ai. now a team of 10 operating at the intersection of technical governance and intercultural exchange.
the path here
i discovered ea in 2013 online as i had just gone vegan and was looking for clear thinkers. started ea geneva in 2015, then relaunched ea switzerland in 2017. dropped out of university in 2016 after getting funded for community building. ran 100s of workshops, retreats, interviews and coaching sessions with policymakers and students seeking to understand impact, rationality. co-founded the simon institute in 2021 with max stauffer, who became my flatmate in 2015, too, since we were both too excited about each other to stop talking.