person

Connor Tann

Faculty AI safety lead

Faculty AI's safety research lead, working with frontier labs and the UK AI Safety Institute on evaluations.

current Director of Safety, Faculty

Strategy positions

Evals-drivenendorses

Capability/risk evals gate deployment; evals are the load-bearing artefact

Bridges academic safety research and industry deployment through Faculty's safety evaluations.

Safety evaluations have to bridge research papers and shipped products. Otherwise the work is academic in the wrong sense.

¶ articleFaculty Safety· Faculty· 2024· loose paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Connor Tann's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

Aleksander Mądry
shared 1 · J=1.00
MIT; ex-OpenAI head of preparedness
Alex Meinke
shared 1 · J=1.00
Apollo Research; deceptive alignment evaluations
Ali Rahimi
shared 1 · J=1.00
Google Brain ML researcher; 'Alchemy' speech
Anna Rogers
shared 1 · J=1.00
IT University of Copenhagen; LLM benchmarking critique
Arati Prabhakar
shared 1 · J=1.00
White House OSTP director (2022–2025)
Beth Barnes
shared 1 · J=1.00
Founder of METR; dangerous capability evaluations

Record last updated 2026-04-25.