person
Aza Raskin
Co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology; Earth Species Project
Co-founder with Tristan Harris of CHT, and co-founder of the Earth Species Project (using ML to decode non-human communication). Co-author of 'The AI Dilemma' 2023 briefing.
Profile
expertise
Policy / meta
Specialises in AI policy, regulation, governance, philanthropy, or movement strategy. Reads the technical literature but does not produce it.
Co-founder Center for Humane Technology with Harris. Earlier built Mozilla products. Communicates AI risk narratives; not a frontier technical contributor.
recognition
Field-leading
Widely known inside the AI and AI-safety community. Appears repeatedly in top venues, podcasts, or governance forums. Not a household name to outsiders.
Recurring co-presenter with Harris. Less individual public recognition.
vintage
Post-ChatGPT
Entered the AI strategy debate in or after 2023. ChatGPT was already public when their voice became influential. Often shaped by Pause letter, AISIs, AI 2027.
CHT AI work follows Harris's 2023 turn. Pre-ChatGPT was browser/UX work.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
Strategy positions
Pauseendorses
Halt frontier training until alignment catches upArgues the pace of AI deployment currently exceeds institutional capacity to absorb it.
When a new technology is released faster than the institutions that would wisely govern it, you get a governance crisis.
Closest strategy neighbours
by jaccard overlapOther people whose strategy tags overlap with Aza Raskin's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.
Record last updated 2026-04-24.