Team

Board of Directors

Owain Evans Director & CEO

Owain was a postdoc at the University of Oxford where he worked on AI Safety and Reinforcement Learning at the Future of Humanity Institute. He holds a Ph.D. from MIT, where he worked on cognitive science, probabilistic programming, and philosophy of science.

Paul Christiano Director

Paul currently runs the Alignment Research Center and previously led the language model alignment team at OpenAI. As well as being a board member at Ought, Paul is also a research associate at FHI and a technical advisor for the Open Philanthropy Project. He holds a Ph.D. from the theory of computing group at UC Berkeley.

Owen Cotton-Barratt Director

Dr. Owen Cotton-Barratt is a Research Associate in the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford. He was previously Director of Research at the Centre for Effective Altruism, and has worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton. Owen holds a DPhil in mathematics from the University of Oxford.

Elicit

The team of Elicit, a public benefit corporation incubated at Ought, includes many former Ought employees, including:

• Andreas Stuhlmüller
• Jungwon Byun
• James Brady
• Ben Rachbach
• Justin Reppert
• Luke Stebbing
• Charlie George
• Maggie Appleton
• Adrian "Panda" Smith
• Sarah Park

Read more about the Elicit team.