Jade Leung is the Chief Technology Officer of the United Kingdom's AI Safety Institute, where she designs and oversees safety evaluations for frontier AI models. Until October 2023, she was Governance Lead at OpenAI, focusing on the safe development of

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, particularly on

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and safety protocols related to advancements in

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. She also co-founded and was the inaugural Head of Research and Partnerships at the Centre for the Governance of AI at the University of Oxford.

Career

Leung graduated from the University of Auckland in

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with a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) with First Class Honours in Civil Engineering in 2015. She won a

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in 2016. She completed her DPhil in International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford in 2019. Her PhD thesis was on "Who will govern artificial intelligence? ''Learning from the history of strategic politics in emerging technologies''". In October 2023, she left OpenAI to join the United Kingdom's AI Safety Institute, where she serves as the chief technology officer. She primarily leads the work on evaluations, focusing on developing empirical tests for dangerous capabilities and safety features of frontier AI systems. In 2024, she was included in Time's list of the "100 Most Influential People in AI".

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