David Abecassis

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.