Stephen Casper (Cas)

Stephen (“Cas”) Casper) is a computer scientist and Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He has formerly worked at MIT and the UK AI Security Institute. His work focuses on AI safeguards and technical governance. His research has been featured at NeurIPS, AAAI, Nature, FAccT, EMNLP, SaTML, TMLR, IASEAI, several course curricula, a number of workshops, and over 20 news articles and newsletters. He is also a writer for the International AI Safety Report and the Singapore Consensus. In addition to MATS, he also mentors for ERA and GovAI. In the past, he has worked closely with over 30 mentees on AI safety- and governance-related research projects.