person
Jade Leung
CTO of UK AI Safety Institute
Political scientist and policy operator who leads technical operations at the UK AI Safety Institute, the first national body dedicated to frontier AI evaluations.
Profile
expertise
Policy / meta
Specialises in AI policy, regulation, governance, philanthropy, or movement strategy. Reads the technical literature but does not produce it.
Chief Scientist at the UK AI Safety Institute (since 2024). Earlier OpenAI head of governance and GovAI.
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.
Senior policy figure recognised in AI-governance circles.
vintage
Scaling era
Worldview formed during GPT-2/3, scaling laws, Anthropic's founding. Pre-ChatGPT but post-deep-learning. The 'scale is all you need' debate is live.
OpenAI head of governance ~2020-2023. Now UK AI Safety Institute Chief Scientist. Career formed during scaling era.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
Strategy positions
Evals-drivenendorses
Capability/risk evals gate deployment; evals are the load-bearing artefactRuns the first government-operated frontier model evaluation team; evaluations are the load-bearing governance instrument.
Frontier evaluations must be mandatory, comparable, and independent of the labs being evaluated.
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Record last updated 2026-04-24.