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This is the team page for CARMA (Center for AI Risk and Mitigation Assessment), an AI safety organization focused on risk assessment, policy strategy, and technical safety, led by Richard Mallah who also serves at the Future of Life Institute.

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This page introduces the core team at CARMA, an AI safety research organization. Key personnel include Executive Director Richard Mallah (also Principal AI Safety Strategist at FLI), Abra Ganz leading geostrategic dynamics research, and Anna Katariina Wisakanto in risk assessment. The team combines technical AI safety expertise with policy, governance, and international relations perspectives.

Key Points

  • •Richard Mallah has 20+ years in ML/AI and has focused on advanced AI safety since 2010, developing AGI risk frameworks and governance recommendations.
  • •Abra Ganz leads geostrategic dynamics research, applying game theory and mechanism design to international AI cooperation and competition.
  • •CARMA's work spans risk assessment, policy strategy, technical safety, and geostrategic analysis of transformative AI.
  • •Team members have backgrounds from FLI, Yale Digital Ethics Center, ETH Zürich, MIT, BlackRock, and Oxford/Amsterdam.
  • •CARMA addresses systemic AI risks including AGI pathways, scalable safety, computational ethics, and international governance mechanisms.

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 Richard Mallah, Executive Director

 Anna Katariina Wisakanto, Senior Risk Assessment Associate

 Abra Ganz, Geostrategic Dynamics Lead

 Richard Mallah founded and leads CARMA, where he directs its portfolio of projects in risk assessment, policy strategy, and technical safety. With over twenty years of experience in machine learning and AI, Richard brings deep expertise across AI algorithms research, research management, systems architecture, product management, and strat 

 Show More Richard Mallah founded and leads CARMA, where he directs its portfolio of projects in risk assessment, policy strategy, and technical safety. With over twenty years of experience in machine learning and AI, Richard brings deep expertise across AI algorithms research, research management, systems architecture, product management, and strategy. Since 2010, Richard has focused on advanced AI safety, maintaining a sense of urgency about societal risks from AGI. He has developed frameworks for understanding pathways to AGI, mapping risk types and intervention paths, formulating theories of change, and creating governance recommendations, while advancing research in scalable safety and computational ethics. In addition to his work at CARMA, Richard serves part-time as the Principal AI Safety Strategist at the Future of Life Institute, which he joined in 2014, where he conducts research, analysis, advocacy, strategy, and field-building regarding technical, strategy and policy aspects of transformative AI safety. Prior to CARMA, Richard co-led the Fairness, Auditing, Transparency, and Externalities of AI Center of Excellence at management consultancy Keystone Strategy, which provided perspective on AI auditing and multibillion-dollar litigations. His experience heading enterprise risk management systems development at BlackRock during the Financial Crisis gave him unique insight into the interplay among systemic tail risk, technology, multiscale foresight, risk reduction, and catalysts for systemic improvement. Richard holds a degree in Intelligent Systems from Columbia University. 

 Show Less Abra Ganz, Geostrategic Dynamics Lead

 Anna Katariina Wisakanto, Senior Risk Assessment Associate

 Abra Ganz, Geostrategic Dynamics Lead

 Abra Ganz is a Senior Researcher at CARMA, where she leads the Geostrategic Dynamics program. In this role, she combines technical analysis with political pragmatism to analyse how transformative AI (TAI) is changing the dynamics of multilateral competition and cooperation. Abra’s aim is to propose and stress-test mechanisms of internatio 

 Show More Abra Ganz is a Senior Researcher at CARMA, where she leads the Geostrategic Dynamics program. In this role, she combines technical analysis with political pragmatism to analyse how transformative AI (TAI) is changing the dynamics of multilateral comp

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