Ajeya Cotra

• Open Philanthropy
• Artificial Intelligence

Ajeya is a Senior Program Officer at Open Philanthropy focused on risks from advanced AI. She analyzes when extremely powerful AI might be developed and what risks that might pose, and runs targeted funding programs to support empirical ML research that could shed light on these questions (recently wrapping up a $25M funding program on benchmarks to measure AI agents’ capabilities). She also speaks about AI futurism and AI risk for a popular audience. She’s been quoted in NYT and Vox, appeared on podcasts including Hard Fork and Freakonomics, was a speaker at CODE 2023, and runs the publication Planned Obsolescence.