Our vision
Technology ought to empower its users, not exploit them.
We're working at taking every little point where AIs have power over the end user, and switching that power back over to the end user.
Mission-lock
We have put a mission-locked clause in our company charter that means we will never increase AI capability more than safety or allow AIs to deceive their users.
Leadership
Aligned AI was founded by Silicon Valley tech hobbyist-turned-technologist, Rebecca Gorman, and joined by ex-Oxford fellow, Dr. Stuart Armstrong, leaders in the fields of AI and AI alignment.
Dr. Stuart Armstrong
Dr. Stuart Armstrong
Co-founder & Chief Mathematician
Dr. Stuart Armstrong spent a decade at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University focusing on the power and risk of AI long before others were aware of these issues. Dr. Armstrong developed many novel methods of AI control, publishing extensively and accumulating thousands of citations. In 2022 he co-founded Aligned AI with the aim of ensuring that AIs remained safe and under human control. He is the author of Smarter Than Us: The Rise of Machine Intelligence and Racing to the precipice: a model of artificial intelligence development. He has also appeared in several documentaries, such as "Alien Worlds", "The Future of Life and Death", and "Odyssey", and has been interviewed by major news outlets about AI and the future of space exploration.
Dr. Stuart Armstrong spent a decade at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University focusing on the power and risk of AI long before others were aware of these issues. Dr. Armstrong developed many novel methods of AI control, publishing extensively and accumulating thousands of citations. In 2022 he co-founded Aligned AI with the aim of ensuring that AIs remained safe and under human control. He is the author of Smarter Than Us: The Rise of Machine Intelligence and Racing to the precipice: a model of artificial intelligence development. He has also appeared in several documentaries, such as "Alien Worlds", "The Future of Life and Death", and "Odyssey", and has been interviewed by major news outlets about AI and the future of space exploration.
Rebecca Gorman
Rebecca Gorman
Founder, Chief Technologist and CEO
Rebecca Gorman is a serial entrepreneur, seasoned technologist and AI expert. Rebecca built her first AI system 20 years ago and has advocated for responsible AI for over a decade. She has co-developed several advanced methods for AI alignment and has advised policymaking bodies including the EU, UN, OECD, and UK Parliament on responsible AI regulation. She was named in REWork’s Top 100 Women Advancing AI in 2023, nominated for VentureBeat's Women in AI Award for Responsibility and Ethics in AI, and is a member of Fortune's Founders Forum.
Rebecca Gorman is a serial entrepreneur, seasoned technologist and AI expert. Rebecca built her first AI system 20 years ago and has advocated for responsible AI for over a decade. She has co-developed several advanced methods for AI alignment and has advised policymaking bodies including the EU, UN, OECD, and UK Parliament on responsible AI regulation. She was named in REWork’s Top 100 Women Advancing AI in 2023, nominated for VentureBeat's Women in AI Award for Responsibility and Ethics in AI, and is a member of Fortune's Founders Forum.
Rebecca Gorman
Founder, Chief Technologist and CEO
Rebecca Gorman is a Silicon Valley native and life-long tech hobbyist who never let go of that 80s vision and experience of enhancing personal ability technology. Technology does not exploit, abuse, manipulate, or control the user, and anything that does so is not worthy of the name. Her mission is to deliver on Silicon Valley's early promise of empowering every individual to easily create, own and control whatever tools they envision and imagine for their lives.
Rebecca is a sought-after keynote speaker and is consulted by a number of governmental and international bodies for expert advice on AI.
She was named in REWork’s Top 100 Women Advancing AI in 2023, nominated for VentureBeat's Women in AI Award for Responsibility and Ethics in AI, and is a member of Fortune's Founders Forum.
Dr. Stuart Armstrong
Co-founder and Chief Mathematician
Dr. Stuart Armstrong spent a decade at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University advancing the field of AI alignment and doing deep analysis on the biggest threats and opportunities confronting humanity. He developed many novel methods of AI control, accumulating thousands of citations. Successful R&D has confirmed his core belief: that the challenge of getting AIs to follow human values not only must be solved, but can be solved, and will be solved.
He is the author of Smarter Than Us, a mentor for the Foresight Institute, an Advisor of the AI Safety Camp, has given multiple TEDx talks, and has appeared in several documentaries ("Alien Worlds", "The Future of Life and Death", "Odyssey") and interviews on AI and the future of space exploration.