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Ajeya Cotra – Senior Advisor, Navigating Transformative AI (Open Philanthropy / Coefficient Giving)
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Ajeya Cotra is a prominent figure in AI safety research and philanthropic strategy, known for her work on AI timelines and the biological anchors framework; this page is her professional profile at Coefficient Giving (Open Philanthropy's affiliated entity).
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Biographical profile of Ajeya Cotra, a researcher at Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy) focused on forecasting AI's trajectory and ensuring its impact is positive. She previously led the technical AI safety program area and has worked on AI timelines, worldview diversification in budget allocation, and global catastrophic risk prioritization. She holds a B.S. in EECS from UC Berkeley.
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- •Ajeya Cotra serves as Senior Advisor on Navigating Transformative AI at Coefficient Giving (affiliated with Open Philanthropy).
- •Her research focuses on forecasting AI development timelines and identifying strategies to ensure positive AI outcomes.
- •She previously led Coefficient's technical AI safety program area and conducted research on GCR funding allocation.
- •She joined as a Research Analyst in July 2016 and has a background in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.
- •She co-founded the Effective Altruists of Berkeley student group and taught a course on effective altruism.
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# Ajeya Cotra
Senior Advisor, Navigating Transformative AI
Ajeya works on forecasting how rapidly-improving AI might impact the world and how we could ensure that impact is positive. Before this, she led Coefficient’s program area on technical AI safety, and before that, she worked on several research projects, including estimating the expected returns to funding across different GCR sub-areas, thinking about how [worldview diversification](https://coefficientgiving.org/research/worldview-diversification/) could be implemented in budget allocation, estimating the social value of creating a marginal unit of housing in cities like San Francisco, and investigating whether cage-free housing systems are really better for hens.
Ajeya joined Coefficient Giving in July 2016 as a Research Analyst. She has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, where she founded the Effective Altruists of Berkeley student group and taught a course on effective altruism.
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