Alfie Lamerton
Projects
Research Direction: Helping establish AI-driven power concentration as a field.
How exactly do the pathways to the worst-case AI-driven power concentration outcomes look?
How pressing is this risk?
Which properties of AI systems enable this risk? And how can interventions target these?
What are the threat models for secret loyalties? For democratic backsliding? For AI-enabled authoritarian takeover?
Bio
Alfie is founder and research lead at Formation Research, a startup research organisation focusing on lock-in and power concentration risks from AI systems. He has a technical background and has been present in the AI safety ecosystem for about 3 years. As a researcher, he is interested in AI-enabled totalitarianism, authoritarianism, coups, and power concentration. He claims that AI systems can make future versions of these phenomena much more stable, long-term, harmful, and widespread, and is focusing on developing and implementing governance-informed interventions for these problems leveraging technical methods of verification and cooperation.
