Jan Wehner

Jan is a researcher at the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS), where he works on technical AI governance to reduce catastrophic risk from AI. He is currently threat modelling how national security uses of frontier AI could go really badly and developing honeypots to secure internal AI agents.

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Before joining IAPS, he was a GovAI winter fellow, a Pivotal fellow and a PhD candidate at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. His past research spans Interpretability, ML security and AI Alignment. He holds a BA in Information Systems and a MSc in CS.