Connor Leahy
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Connor Leahy is a German-American artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur. He is the U.S. Director of ControlAI, a nonprofit focused on preventing extinction risk from artificial superintelligence. Earlier in his career, he co-founded EleutherAI and later founded the AI safety research company Conjecture, which he led as CEO until 2026. He is known for his work on large language models and for advocating about the risks of advanced AI, including warnings about human extinction from artificial superintelligence.
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