Alumni outcomes
The ERA Fellowship equips individuals with the skills, knowledge, and network to become impactful leaders in the fields of AI safety and governance.
Our alumni go on to secure influential roles and produce research at the following organisations:
Fellow Testimonials
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"I'm so grateful to have developed lasting connections with peers, mentors, and other talented professionals across the AI safety field. This was an ideal research experience in an even more ideal setting."
Christina Krawec, ERA Fellow 2025
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"ERA had a big counterfactual impact on Deep Ignorance and our dissemination strategy. The aggregate advice I received from my Research Manager, the various speakers, and other fellows really made me focus on getting the work in front of folks at frontier companies."
Kyle O’Brien, Eluether, ERA Fellow 2025
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"With tremendous support, astounding guest speakers, and peers whose curiosity pushed me further every day, the fellowship condensed years of growth into months and gave me the clarity, network, and momentum to continue in this field. "
James Zhang, Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University, Princeton Computer Science , ERA Fellow 2025
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"The ERA Cambridge Fellowship significantly accelerated my professional development. This support allowed me to advance the AI safety focus of my PhD research and unlocked exciting career opportunities."
Pauline Kuss, Research Scholar @ LawAI, ERA Fellow 2024
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"ERA invests a lot in its fellows as people, through the talks, workshops, and career focus. Getting better at general competence is a big part of the Fellowship."
Edward Kembery, University of Cambridge, ERA Fellow 2024
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"ERA significantly fast-tracked my path into AI governance. It has given me the time and legitimacy to speak to experts and produce formal research outputs."
Aris R., RAND Corporation Technology and Security Policy Fellow, ERA Fellow 2023
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"ERA gave me the opportunity to explore a new research area, allowing me to test my fit for it and introducing me to relevant experts in the field."
Tina W., NTI:bio Next Generation Biosecurity Delegation, ERA Fellow 2024
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"Senior researchers in my field have been more than willing to advise me and discuss my project and put me in touch with other experts to fill relevant gaps in my research.”
Carson E., Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative, ERA Fellow 2022 & 2024
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My favourite part of ERA was by far the other fellows: it was amazing to get to work alongside such smart, dedicated, curious people, and it definitely changed how I think.
Catherine B., Open Philanthropy, ERA Fellow 2022
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"The networks developed during the fellowship through interactions with mentor, research manager and other fellows are invaluable, and it’s highly likely that I would not be working in my current position if not for the fellowship. "
Iyngkarran Kumar, GovAI and Transformative Futures Institute, ERA Fellow 2023
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"It was hugely inspiring and uplifting to be surrounded by ambitious, hard working people who want artificial intelligence to benefit humanity. "
Severin F., University of Louisville, ERA Fellow 2024
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"Through ERA's mentorship, I rapidly improved at identifying research questions that are both impactful and tractable."
Rosco Hunter, Machine Learning PhD, ERA Fellow 2024
Alumni Spotlight
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Claire Dennis, ERA 2023
Claire joined ERA after completing her Master's in Public Affairs at Princeton, where she focused on climate change and AI policy. Her experience included representing Princeton at COP27 and serving as a Policy Fellow at the Responsible AI Institute. During her ERA fellowship, Claire explored the UN's potential role in AI governance, co-authoring a report titled "Towards a UN Role in Governing Foundation Artificial Intelligence Models" with collaborators from the Simon Institute and UN University.
Claire describes the ERA fellowship as a turning point in her career, introducing her to a community of passionate researchers exploring AI's implications. The programme's timing allowed her to analyse rapid developments in AI governance alongside like-minded individuals. After ERA, Claire pursued opportunities with the UN and US Government while co-authoring a paper on international AI governance frameworks, aiming to make a meaningful impact in this nascent field. She is now a Research Scholar at the Centre for the Governance of AI.
Our Alumni
Below, we spotlight some of our alumni who are actively working on mitigating risks from frontier AI at several impactful organisations in this space:
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Alexander Davies
UK AI Security Insitute
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Alexandra Bates
Constellation
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Alejandro Ortega
Apollo Research
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Aris Richardson
RAND Corporation
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Arvo Muñoz Morán
Rethink Priorities
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Barath Harithas
Centre for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
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Carson Ezell
Harvard University
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Catherine Brewer
Open Philanthropy
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Claire Dennis
Centre for the Governance of AI
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Conor Downey
RAND Corporation
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Duncan McClements
Inference Magazine
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Edward Kembery
Centre for the Governance of AI
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Einar Urdshals
Timaeus
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Gabriel Mukobi
US AI Safety Institute
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Hamza Chaudhry
Future of Life Institute
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Helena Cozzarini
Centre for the Governance of AI
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Iyngkarran Kumar
Centre for the Governance of AI
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Jack Miller
Entrepreneur First (def/acc)
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Jai Patel
UK AI Security Institute
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Jesse Richardson
Safe AI for Humanity (Mila)
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Moritz von Knebel
Institute for Law & AI
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Oscar Delaney
Institute for AI Policy & Strategy
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Pauline Kuss
Insitute for Law & AI
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Peter Barnett
Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)
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Pranav Gade
Conjecture
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Richard Ren
Centre for AI Safety
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Tom Reed
UK AI Security Institute