person
Ilan Gur
ARIA UK CEO; ex-ARPA-E
CEO of the UK Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), launched in 2023 to fund high-risk, high-reward research. Previously a program director at U.S. ARPA-E.
current CEO, ARIA (UK)
past Program Director, ARPA-E
Strategy positions
Differential technologyendorses
Preferentially develop protective technology over dangerousArgues frontier R&D agencies should make calculated bets on long-shot research that markets will not fund; oriented ARIA's first programs around safe scalable AI and biotech.
ARIA exists to fund the research that markets and traditional grantmakers will not. AI safety done well is exactly that kind of bet, high-impact, hard to fund any other way.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.