Alan Cooney
AISI
AISI
Alan Cooney leads the Autonomous Systems team within the UK's AI Safety Institute. His team is responsible for assessing the capabilities and risks of Frontier AI systems released by AI labs such as OpenAI, Google and Anthropic. Prior to working in AI safety, he was an investment consultant and start-up founder, with his company Skyhook being acquired in 2023. He was mentored by Google DeepMind researcher Neel Nanda in the MATS Autumn 2022 cohort.
The Summer 2022 cohort was MATS's first full-scale program, with 31 scholars and 7 mentors from leading AI safety organizations including OpenAI, ARC, MIRI, EleutherAI, and Aligned AI. The program ran 5 weeks online followed by 8 weeks in-person in Berkeley, where scholars conducted independent research under expert mentorship, participated in educational seminars, and built community with peers in the Berkeley AI safety ecosystem.
Alan Cooney
