person
Jaime Sevilla
Director of Epoch AI
Runs Epoch AI alongside Tamay Besiroglu. Produces the compute, training run, and dataset scaling data that is the quantitative backbone of mainstream AI forecasting.
Profile
expertise
Deep technical
Sustained peer-reviewed contribution to ML, alignment, interpretability, or safety techniques. Could review a frontier paper.
Director of Epoch AI. Compute, training-data, and capability-trend analysis.
recognition
Established
Reliable, recognised voice within their specific subfield. Cited and invited but not central to general AI discourse.
Recognised in AI-economics and forecasting 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.
Director of Epoch AI from 2022. Compute-and-trends work crystallises in scaling era.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
Strategy positions
Existential primacymixed
Extinction/disempowerment risk overrides ordinary cost-benefitQuantitative empiricist; publishes data that underlies most AI timeline forecasts.
Compute for frontier training runs has doubled roughly every six months since 2010.
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Record last updated 2026-04-24.