Ai Alignment Websites

Owain Evans is an AI Alignment researcher and Director at Truthful AI, a research group in Berkeley. He is also an Affiliate Researcher at CHAI, UC Berkeley. His research focuses on emergent misalignment, out-of-context reasoning, and introspection in LLMs. Previously, he worked at FHI (Oxford) and earned a PhD from MIT. He serves on the Board of Directors at Ought and Constellation. He gave the Hinton Lectures in 2025 in Toronto.

Steve Byrnes is a Boston-area physicist working on Artificial General Intelligence safety research, also known as AI Alignment. His work involves thinking about neuroscience and algorithms. He is currently working at Astera. From 2015 to 2021, he worked as a professional physicist at Draper, a nonprofit R&D laboratory in the Boston area, where he worked on algorithms, system design, simulations, and trade studies across many domains. From 2012 to 2015, he was a physics postdoc in Federico Capasso’s applied physics laboratory at Harvard University, doing theoretical and experimental research in thermodynamics and optics. He earned a Physics PhD at the University of California, Berkeley from 2007 to 2012. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 2007 with a B.A. in Physics and Math. He was a winner of both the USA Math Olympiad and the USA Physics Olympiad, and he won first place nationally in the Siemens Westinghouse Competition with a math project.