Excited to be part of this awesome group!

@sebkrier works on frontier system governance at @GoogleDeepMind. Séb brings expertise in law, technology, and institutional economics, and his writing on Coasean bargaining was one of the inspirations for the agent experiment we're running at Edge Esmeralda with our friends at @JoinEdgeCity: https://blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/coasean-bargaining-at-scale

@ahall_research leads the Free Systems Lab, which is housed across the Hoover Institution and Stanford GSB. The lab builds evals, prototypes, and tools that shape how AI interacts with democratic governance.

His evaluations, such as the Dictatorship Eval that measures LLM responses to authoritarian requests, have directly influenced assessment at frontier labs and beyond. https://www.dictatoreval.org/

@sethlazar is the founding director of the the Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory Lab at Johns Hopkins and ANU, which applies analytical political philosophy and normative ethics to advanced AI, and the previous winner of two Cosmos grants. https://mintresearch.org/

@mattbotvinick leads @AnthropicAI's work on AI and the rule of law. He previously served as senior director of AI research and senior technical and policy advisor at Google DeepMind, and led the Neural Computation Lab at Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania.

@Houda_nait is a research lead at @OpenAI, working at the intersection of multimodal AI, human-computer interaction, and continuous learning. Her work focuses on building intelligent, personalized systems that enhance human agency, rather than displacing it.

Ben Bariach leads frontier AI safety and societal impact at Microsoft Superintelligence and researches AI and governance at @UniofOxford. His research interests center on superintelligence preparedness, including the implicit philosophies underpinning AI development.

Julia Haas is a Staff Research Scientist in the Responsibility Unit at @GoogleDeepMind, focused on philosophy and cognitive science. She is an expert on valuation and its role in theories of the mind and is also researching the possibility of moral artificial intelligence.

@LedermanHarvey is a professor of philosophy and chair of humanities at @UTAustin. He is currently working on a range of topics, including the foundations of game and decision theory, the philosophy of AI, and the history of Chinese neo-Confucianism. He recently published a paper on AI introspection: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05414

You can read more about the fellows and their work, and sign up for future updates here: https://blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/introducing-the-cosmos-research-group