About
Leon Staufer is an AI researcher working on frontier AI evaluations, agent governance, and transparency. He was a fellow at GovAI (mentored by Aidan Homewood) and MATS (mentored by Stephen Casper) and now researches emergency shutdown mechanisms for advanced AI agents at SASH.
Leon holds an MPhil in Ethics of AI, Data and Algorithms from the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, a BSc in computer science from TUM and a BA in philosophy from LMU Munich, and has studied on exchange at KTH Stockholm and the National University of Singapore.
Previously, he was a board member of All Tech Is Human’s University Network, a youth delegate to the Congress of the Council of Europe, and a member of the Responsible Technology Hub.