Meet the MIRI
Technical Governance Team

Aaron’s research at MIRI is focused on International Coordination on AI, with an emphasis on Verification Mechanisms. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Pitzer College in 2022 and quickly transitioned to working in AI safety. After a year of up-skilling and helping grow the field, Aaron started doing independent AI alignment research with the MATS program in summer 2023. He later managed 4 research teams through SPAR, the Supervised Program in Alignment Research working on sycophancy and interpretability. Aaron joined the Technical Governance Team in July 2024.

David researches strategies to address the dangers posed by frontier AI research. Before MIRI, David studied US-China competition as a MATS scholar mentored by Lisa Thiergart. David has a background in commercial video game design including the rapid prototyping of strategy games and architecture of social systems. He was the lead designer of Teamfight Tactics from its inception through launch. David has a BS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University.

Peter currently works on governance plans to prevent the catastrophic outcomes from advanced AI, and previously worked on the limitations and uses of AI evaluations. He has a Masters degree in Physics from the University of Otago, and has published research in quantum optics and quantum fluids. He worked on AI safety as part of the first MATS cohort, and at the Center for Human-Compatible AI on reward learning. Peter joined MIRI in December 2022, initially working on technical alignment, and now works on the Technical Governance Team.

Lisa previously led the technical governance team, which she founded in February 2024 after joining MIRI as research manager in summer 2023. She is now a senior director at the SL5 Task Force at the Institute for Security and Technology.