Connor Leahy

Connor Leahy è un ricercatore di machine learning che ha cofondato EleutherAI e guidato il laboratorio di sicurezza Conjecture fino al 2026; oggi dirige ControlAI negli Stati Uniti e sostiene che costruire una superintelligenza andrebbe messo fuori legge come rischio di estinzione.

Ruoli

lug 2020 – oggiCo-founder and co-lead, EleutherAIGrassroots collective that released The Pile, GPT-Neo, GPT-J and GPT-NeoX.Fonte →
mar 2022 – mar 2026Founder and Chief Executive Officer, ConjectureLondon AI-safety lab; wound down in March 2026 because frontier research had become too expensive.Fonte →
mar 2026 – oggiUS Executive Director, ControlAIBased in Washington DC, briefing lawmakers on extinction risk from superintelligence.Fonte →

A registro

20 ago 2026 · Intervista · Democracy Now!
We are developing systems that are not tools. They are not weapons. They are adversaries. … we should criminalize the creation of superintelligence, the same way that it is illegal to build a nuclear bomb.
US Executive Director, ControlAI all’epoca
AI Superintelligence Is Not a Tool, It's an Adversary Threatening Humanity: ControlAI's Connor Leahy →
26 mar 2026 · Post · Expedition to the Far Lands (Substack)
The problem with ASI is not that ASI is killing us. ASI doesn't exist, yet. It's that we are allowing unaccountable corporations to build things that threaten the lives of us and everyone we love.
US Executive Director, ControlAI all’epoca
Written on closing Conjecture and moving to ControlAI.
Conjecture: A Retrospective →
1 dic 2025 · Audizione · House of Commons of Canada, Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics
Recently, AI companies have been racing to automate AI research itself, allowing AIs to build even better AIs by themselves. This process is called recursive self-improvement, meaning the moment an AI is built that is good enough to make better AIs, it might already be too late.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Conjecture all’epoca
Appeared as CEO of Conjecture Ltd.
Evidence - ETHI (45-1) - No. 20 →
31 ott 2024 · Articolo scientifico · The Compendium
Humanity risks extinction from its very creations — AIs. … If they succeed in creating AIs outsmarting humanity, it would be game over -- no one knows how to keep control of these AIs.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Conjecture all’epoca
Co-written with Gabriel Alfour, Chris Scammell, Andrea Miotti and Adam Shimi; a living document first published 31 October 2024.
The Compendium →
17 feb 2023 · Intervista · TIME
These systems, as they become more powerful, are not becoming less alien. If anything, we're putting a nice little mask on them with a smiley face.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Conjecture all’epoca
Speaking as CEO of Conjecture about the Bing chatbot; he added "We cannot bound what these systems do at all."
The New AI-Powered Bing Is Threatening Users. That's No Laughing Matter →