Andrew Critch | PhD, UC Berkeley

2023 – present

[Survival and Flourishing Corporation](https://encultured.ai/)

Founder & Director (part-time)

2021 – present

[Encultured AI](https://encultured.ai/) / [HealthcareAgents](https://healthcareagents.com/) / [theMultiplicity.ai](https://themultiplicity.ai/)

CEO & Cofounder

2017 – present

[UC Berkeley / Center for Human Compatible AI](https://humancompatible.ai/)

Research Scientist; open-source game theory, joint-ownership protocols for AI systems, human/AI interaction, societal-scale risks; ~1 day/week as of April, 2022.

2015 – 2017

[Machine Intelligence Research Institute](http://intelligence.org/)

Research Fellow; bounded computational reasoning and open-source game theory.

2014 – 2015

[Jane Street Capital, NYC](http://www.janestreet.com/)

Algorithmic stock trader.

2012 – 2014

[Center for Applied Rationality](http://rationality.org/)

Co-founder, curriculum developer.

2013

[Mathematical Biosciences Institute](https://mbi.osu.edu/)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (deferred).

2008 – 2013

UC Berkeley / PhD

Algebraic geometry.

2006 -2008


University of Toronto / MSc

Analytic geometry.

2004 – 2006


Memorial University / BSc (Honors)

Pure mathematics.

## Basic Info

[Resume](http://www.acritch.com/resume/) /
[Curriculum vitae](http://www.acritch.com/jobapps/cv/) /
[Teaching statement](http://www.acritch.com/jobapps/teaching-statement/) /
[Publications](http://www.acritch.com/research/)

**Current affiliations:**

[Encultured AI](https://encultured.ai/) / [HealthcareAgents](https://healthcareagents.com/) / [theMultiplicity.ai](https://themultiplicity.ai/) — CEO & Cofounder (full-time)

[UC Berkeley](http://www.berkeley.edu/) / [Center for Human-Compatible AI](http://humancompatible.ai/) (CHAI) — Research Scientist (~1 day/week)

[Survival and Flourishing Fund](http://survivalandflourishing.fund/) (SFF) — Fund Advisor (volunteer; ~2 hr/week)

[Survival and Flourishing .Com](http://survivalandflourishing.com/) (SFC) — Director (~3 hr/week)

[Survival and Flourishing Projects](http://survivalandflourishing.org/) (SFP) — Project Director (volunteer; ~1hr/month)

[OpenLetter.net](http://openletter.net/) — Cofounder (~1 hr/month)

[Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative](http://existence.org/) (BERI) — Founder and President (volunteer; ~1hr/month)

## What I’m up to

… mostly, a bunch of projects intended to help humanity navigate the development of increasingly advanced AI technology. As of spring 2022, I’m working full-time as CEO and Cofounder of [Encultured AI](https://encultured.ai/), which is now doing business as [HealthcareAgents](https://healthcareagents.com/). I also work for ~1 day/week as a research scientist at UC Berkeley, within the [Center for Human-compatible AI (CHAI)](http://humancompatible.ai/) in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. Prior to that, I worked full-time at CHAI from 2017-2021. I also volunteer for about an hour per week at the [Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

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