AGI Strategies

person

Hugh Zhang

Epoch AI researcher

Machine learning researcher at Epoch AI who has published on reproducibility of capability benchmarks and the scaling-data bottleneck.

current Researcher, Epoch AI

Strategy positions

Evals-drivenendorses

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

Argues capability evaluations need to be reproducible, publicly verifiable, and independent.

Benchmark reproducibility is an underrated governance infrastructure question.
articleEpoch AI· Epoch AI· 2024· loose paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Hugh Zhang'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

    Alex Meinke

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Apollo Research; deceptive alignment evaluations

  • Ali Rahimi

    Ali Rahimi

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Google Brain ML researcher; 'Alchemy' speech

  • Anna Rogers

    Anna Rogers

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    IT University of Copenhagen; LLM benchmarking critique

  • Arati Prabhakar

    Arati Prabhakar

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    White House OSTP director (2022–2025)

  • Beth Barnes

    Beth Barnes

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Founder of METR; dangerous capability evaluations

Record last updated 2026-04-25.