Allan Dafoe
webPersonal homepage of Allan Dafoe, a leading figure in AI governance and safety, who founded GovAI and the Cooperative AI Foundation and now leads frontier strategy and governance at Google DeepMind.
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This is the personal homepage of Allan Dafoe, Senior Director of Frontier Strategy and Governance at Google DeepMind and Distinguished Research Scientist. He is the founder of the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI) and the Cooperative AI Foundation, and focuses on the safety and governance of frontier AI for the common good.
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- •Allan Dafoe holds senior roles at Google DeepMind focused on frontier AI strategy and governance.
- •He founded the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI), originally at Oxford, now an independent nonprofit.
- •He is founder and trustee of the Cooperative AI Foundation.
- •Before 2016, he was a Yale professor studying great power peace, reputation, and causes of war.
- •He believes AI governance is the most important issue of the century.
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Allan Dafoe Jul AUG Sep 14 2025 2026 2027 success fail About this capture TIMESTAMPS The Wayback Machine - http://web.archive.org/web/20260814144822/https://www.allandafoe.com/home Search this site Embedded Files Skip to main content Skip to navigation Senior Director, Frontier Strategy and Governance, Google DeepMind Distinguished Research Scientist, Google DeepMind Senior Advisor and Visiting Fellow, Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, University of Oxford Founder and Trustee, Cooperative AI Foundation Founder, Centre for the Governance of AI I work on the safety and governance of frontier artificial intelligence . My goal is to help guide the development of AI for the common good. I believe the governance of AI is the most important issue of the century. I do this work at Google DeepMind , London . I was the founding director and former president of the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI) , which was founded at the University of Oxford and is now an independent nonprofit; founder and trustee of the Cooperative AI Foundation ; and senior advisor and visiting fellow to the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative . Before 2016 (AlphaGo), I worked as a professor at Yale on great power peace. Specifically I studied the causes of the liberal peace , and the role of reputation and honor as motives for war. Along the way I developed statistical and methodological tools to enable more transparent, credible causal inference, teaching the cap-stone PhD statistical methods course in political science. My C.V. (pdf) My Google Scholar Profile Allan Dafoe Google DeepMind (R7) 14-18 Handyside Street London, N1C 4DN, UK allandafoe@google.com allandafoe@gmail.com " data-enable-html-sites-gen-ai="false" jsaction="rcuQ6b:WYd;"> Google Sites Report abuse Google Sites Report abuse
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