Alfie Lamerton

As a researcher, I am interested in AI-enabled totalitarianism, authoritarianism, coups, and power concentration, and governance-informed solutions for these problems leveraging technical methods of verification and cooperation. I think AI is a key technology in the potential manifestation of a more extreme version of pre-existing social and political phenomena like totalitarianism, authoritarianism, coups, and power concentration. AI could make these possible situations much worse, so I am interested in governance-informed technical methods for designing and governing AI systems in a way that reduces these amplification risks.