Alfie Lamerton

Alfie is the founder and research lead at Formation Research, a startup research organisation focusing on lock-in and power concentration risks from AI systems. He works on AI-enabled totalitarianism, coups, and extreme 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.