AI Safety Unconference & EAGxAustralia 2023


I’ll be at the AI Safety Unconference and then EAGxAustralia from 22-24 September 2023. Please reach out via Swapcard if you’re attending - I’m keen to connect and talk AI safety, policy & governance.


Get involved AI governance opportunities in Australia

I use applied behaviour science and social science methods to understand and address complex challenges, including climate change, pandemics, and advanced artificial intelligence.

I am especially interested in how to improve decision-making and behaviour about the development, deployment and use of artificial intelligence to address catastrophic risks and safely transition to futures where advanced AI is widely used.

Interests
  • AI policy and governance
  • Behaviour science
  • Implementation science
  • Scale up
  • Effective altruism
Education

  • PhD in Social Psychology

    The University of Queensland

Projects

Safe and Responsible AI submission
Working with Good Ancestors Policy, I supported three streams of work to respond to a consultation by the Australian government about safe and responsible AI. This work included (1) contributing to a detailed submission from Good Ancestors Policy to the consultation, (2) organising and delivering community workshops to help interested people write their own submissions, and (3) coordinating a co-signed statement and open letter from Australian AI experts.
Safe and Responsible AI submission
Ready Research
Ready Research is a collaboration I co-founded in 2019, aligned with the principles of effective altruism. It provides research, training, and communication services to help address the world’s most pressing problems.
Ready Research
SCRUB COVID-19 survey
The SCRUB COVID-19 survey aimed to provide current and future policy makers with actionable insights into public attitudes and behaviours relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. I led this project, which was incubated at Ready Research, funded initially by Monash University, and then funded and conducted collaboratively with the Victorian Government. Over 2020-2021 we conducted 21 waves of the survey, about 1 every 3 weeks, and collected rich behavioural and attitudinal data from more than 40,000 people.
SCRUB COVID-19 survey
Climate Adaptation Mission
The BehaviourWorks Australia Climate Adaptation Mission explores how systems thinking, knowledge co-production, and behavioural public policy experiments could help Australian communities reduce harms from climate change. I co-led this project with collaborators Stefan Kaufman and Kien Nguyen.
Climate Adaptation Mission
Scale up toolkit

When we know that a behaviour change intervention has worked in a pilot or trial, how can we scale it up to achieve greater impact and reach?

I led this work at BehaviourWorks in collaboration with the Victorian government Behavioural Insights Unit to develop an evidence-informed toolkit to help behavioural insights researchers and practitioners improve the scale up of their behaviour change interventions.

Scale up toolkit

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