Francis Rhys Ward (Rhys)

Arrow Research

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Director

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AI Control and Monitoring, Capability and Propensity Evaluations, Misalignment Science, Technical AI Governance

Rhys is the research director of Arrow: a new AI safety non-profit based in London.

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He is currently most excited about working on alignment science (e.g., model organisms research) and technical governance style work which reduces public uncertainty regarding important questions (e.g., his recent work on no-CoT time-horizons). 

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Rhys started working on AGI risk in 2019. He has previously worked at: Redwood Research, LawZero, UK AISI, GovAI, CLR, and the Centre for Assuring Autonomy. He did his PhD in AI Deception at Imperial College London.