Connor Leahy
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individual · Individual · listed
- Name
- Connor Leahy
- Profile slug
- connor-leahy
- Version
- 2
- Focus areas
- AI governance & policy
- Alignment & control
- Public communication & education
- Public professional roles
- Not recorded
- Publicly stated affiliations
- Not recorded
- Media channels
- Not recorded
What they do
SIRDA editorial
At a glance
Co-founder of EleutherAI and Conjecture and US executive director of ControlAI; prominent advocate on loss-of-control risk.
Their current place in the ecosystem spans AI governance and policy, alignment and control, and public communication and education.
Current work and relevance
Leahy leads Conjecture and continues to argue publicly for treating current frontier AI development as unacceptably risky absent stronger safety guarantees, including advocacy for coordinated slowdowns on frontier-model training.
SIRDA tracks Connor Leahy because this person's research, leadership, public argument, or institutional work has materially shaped advanced-AI safety. The profile connects those contributions to current organizations, projects, debates, and SIRDA questions while keeping personal views separate from the positions of any organization with which the person is affiliated.
Relationship web
- ControlAI: Connor Leahy leads ControlAI US work
- Conjecture: Connor Leahy founded Conjecture
Sources
- Official or primary page: ControlAI
- Recent primary/relevant update
- Recent primary/relevant update
- Recent primary/relevant update
- Recent primary/relevant update
Editorial note
This is SIRDA editorial content. Inclusion is an educational listing. It does not mean the subject has joined SIRDA, endorsed the founding inquiry, or approved this description. Factual corrections can be incorporated with a visible revision record, and substantive disagreements can be published as attributed responses.
Key work
No key work recorded.
Sources
- https://controlai.com/
- https://centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/the-ai-doc-is-now-on-netflix-all
- https://www.humanetech.com/landing/the-ai-doc
- https://www.focusfeatures.com/the-ai-doc-or-how-i-became-an-apocaloptimist
- https://www.focusfeatures.com/article/the-human-beings-who-made-the-ai-doc-or-how-i-became-an-apocaloptimist-a-reality
Version history
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Version 2: Published SIRDA editorial snapshot: 2026-09-23 00:00:00+00
individual · Individual · listed
- Name
- Connor Leahy
- Profile slug
- connor-leahy
- Version
- 2
- Focus areas
- AI governance & policy
- Alignment & control
- Public communication & education
- Public professional roles
- Not recorded
- Publicly stated affiliations
- Not recorded
- Media channels
- Not recorded
What they do
SIRDA editorial
At a glance
Co-founder of EleutherAI and Conjecture and US executive director of ControlAI; prominent advocate on loss-of-control risk.
Their current place in the ecosystem spans AI governance and policy, alignment and control, and public communication and education.
Current work and relevance
Leahy leads Conjecture and continues to argue publicly for treating current frontier AI development as unacceptably risky absent stronger safety guarantees, including advocacy for coordinated slowdowns on frontier-model training.
SIRDA tracks Connor Leahy because this person's research, leadership, public argument, or institutional work has materially shaped advanced-AI safety. The profile connects those contributions to current organizations, projects, debates, and SIRDA questions while keeping personal views separate from the positions of any organization with which the person is affiliated.
Relationship web
- ControlAI: Connor Leahy leads ControlAI US work
- Conjecture: Connor Leahy founded Conjecture
Sources
- Official or primary page: ControlAI
- Recent primary/relevant update
- Recent primary/relevant update
- Recent primary/relevant update
- Recent primary/relevant update
Editorial note
This is SIRDA editorial content. Inclusion is an educational listing. It does not mean the subject has joined SIRDA, endorsed the founding inquiry, or approved this description. Factual corrections can be incorporated with a visible revision record, and substantive disagreements can be published as attributed responses.
Key work
No key work recorded.
Sources
- https://controlai.com/
- https://centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/the-ai-doc-is-now-on-netflix-all
- https://www.humanetech.com/landing/the-ai-doc
- https://www.focusfeatures.com/the-ai-doc-or-how-i-became-an-apocaloptimist
- https://www.focusfeatures.com/article/the-human-beings-who-made-the-ai-doc-or-how-i-became-an-apocaloptimist-a-reality
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