Hi, I'm Leo.
I'm an AI safety researcher and founder of Neolithic, a nonprofit startup building tools to accelerate AI safety research. I believe that the race to AGI has a high chance of resulting in the extinction or permanent disempowerment of humanity if we do not course-correct in the next 2-10 years. My life's mission is to cherish the beauty of human existence and to mitigate global catastrophic risk so that future generations can do the same.
Before founding Neolithic, I was doing AI deception research and building automated interpretability tools in London. And before that I was doing ML for computational neuroscience and building synapse simulations in San Diego. And before that I was a design engineer building orbital rockets in New Zealand. I'm incredibly grateful for all the connections and guidance from wise engineers, scientists, and philosophers I've shared paths with along the way.
I'm based in San Francisco and love to surf, hike, BJJ, play music, and conduct vegetable-based experiments in the garden. It's a damn good life.