Dave Banerjee

Dave is a researcher at the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS), where he works on reducing risks from extreme concentration of power. Lately, he has been thinking about how to modernize checks and balances for the AGI era, implement automated oversight of government AI deployments, and shape the character of AI systems used in government. His past work includes threat modeling secret loyalties in frontier AI models and developing security standards to protect against them. Previously, he was a research manager at ERA and worked as a security engineer. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Columbia University, where he focused on cryptography, reverse engineering, and ML.