AI Safety Policy Entrepreneurship Fellow
Joe O’Brien
Dual-use AI monitoring and reporting,
Incident preparedness and response,
Independent oversight and evaluation policy

Joe is a Fellow on the AI Safety Entrepreneurship Fellowship. He is also a Researcher on the Policy & Standards team at the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS), where he focuses on evaluation, reporting, and policy response to emerging AI capabilities. He is also a mentor on the Supervised Program for Alignment Research, where he leads a project to improve funding for AI safety and assurance research priorities.

He was previously a winter fellow at the Center for the Governance of AI and a fellow at Rethink Priorities. He holds an MA in Technology Ethics and Policy from Duke University and a BA in Environmental Studies from the University of Vermont.