Alex Csaky

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I'm an AI safety researcher and founder working on AI for epistemics and coordination. I'm an Astra Fellow on the strategy and governance stream, working out where the field most needs accelerating to ensure a better future, and I consult on enterprise AI transformation through Proferra, with a focus on better organisational coordination.

Previously: contracted with Forethought as a founder in residence, scoping the field of AI for epistemics and coordination; Talos Policy Leaders Fellow (EU AI governance); Apart Studio Fellow (sycophancy evals); facilitator on BlueDot's AGI Strategy course. Before AI safety I founded and sold an e-commerce startup while at secondary school, ran an education company in Hong Kong, and worked as an AI engineer building tools for enterprises and political candidates. I read archaeology and anthropology at Oxford, where I dug on a Roman Iberian excavation at Castelo de Cuncos and wrote my dissertation on human cognitive enhancement.

Things I'm interested in

• AI for epistemics and coordination. Previously scoped this field with Forethought.
  • Multilingual model evaluation. Syco-Lingual (short paper; presented at IASEAI'26 Paris).
• Hosting. I co-run the AI Safety Cinema Society in London; our first screening paired Daniel Roher's The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist with Suzy Shepherd's short Seat at the Table. I organise workshops and hackathons. Beyond work, I like hosting dinners and events for friends.
• Anthropology and Futurism. I'm writing an essay on AI personhood for Scheme magazine, arguing that personhood is made through relationships rather than crossed as a threshold (semi-finished draft). More widely I enjoy reading, writing and thinking about the future of humanity, as well as anthropology and what it means to be human. See the Reading / Writing page for more of this.