Team

Board of Directors

Owain Evans Director & CEO

Owain runs a research group on AI Safety in Berkeley. He previously worked as a research scientist at the University of Oxford and at Ought (2019-20). He holds a Ph.D. from MIT.

Lukas Finnveden Director

Lukas is a research fellow at Open Philanthropy, focusing on what we can do to reduce potential risks from advanced AI. Previously, he was a research scholar at the University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute. He has a B.S. in computer science from KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Owen Cotton-Barratt Director

Owen is a researcher who has spent the last ten years on questions around what is best to do given uncertainty about the future of AI. Owen holds a DPhil in mathematics from the University of Oxford.

Elicit

The team of Elicit, a public benefit corporation incubated at Ought, includes many former Ought employees, including:

• Andreas Stuhlmüller
• Jungwon Byun
• James Brady
• Ben Rachbach
• Justin Reppert
• Luke Stebbing
• Charlie George
• Maggie Appleton
• Adrian "Panda" Smith
• Sarah Park

Read more about the Elicit team.