Lewis Hammond (Cooperative AI Foundation)
Gillian K. Hadfield (Johns Hopkins University)
Michael Dennis (Google DeepMind)
16:00 - 17:00 UTC 26 June 2025
Lewis Hammond serves as Research Director of the Cooperative AI Foundation and is a DPhil candidate in computer science at the University of Oxford. He is also also affiliated with the Centre for the Governance of AI and is a ‘Pathways to AI Policy’ fellow at the Wilson Center. His research concerns safety and cooperation in multi-agent systems, motivated by the problem of ensuring that AI and other powerful technologies are developed and governed safely and democratically.
Gillian K. Hadfield is Professor of Government and Policy and in the Computer Science Department at the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. She holds a CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence and is a Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Senior Fellow. Originally trained as an economist and legal scholar, Gillian now collaborates with machine learning researchers to build systems that understand and respond to human norms. She also works on innovative designs for legal and regulatory systems for AI and other complex global technologies.
Michael Dennis is currently a Research Scientist on Google DeepMind's Openendedness team. He was previously a Ph.D. Student at the Center for Human Compatible AI (CHAI) advised by Stuart Russell. Prior to research in AI he conducted research on computer science theory and computational geometry.