Ajeya Cotra
Technical Staff, METR
About
Ajeya Cotra works on threat modeling and risk assessment for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI at METR. She previously led the technical AI safety program at Open Philanthropy (now Coefficient Giving), where she developed the influential Biological Anchors framework for forecasting when transformative AI might arrive. She holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.
Key Contributions
- Biological Anchors framework for forecasting transformative AI timelines
- Led Open Philanthropy's technical AI safety grantmaking program
- Research on compute scaling trends and their implications for AI development
- Threat modeling and risk assessment for AI loss-of-control scenarios at METR
- Founded Effective Altruists of Berkeley and taught EA course at UC Berkeley
