person
Owain Evans
Apollo Research co-founder; scheming behaviour researcher
AI safety researcher who co-founded Apollo Research, focused on empirically identifying scheming and deceptive behaviours in frontier models.
Profile
expertise
Deep technical
Sustained peer-reviewed contribution to ML, alignment, interpretability, or safety techniques. Could review a frontier paper.
Apollo Research. Long publication record on truthful AI and language-model evaluation.
recognition
Established
Reliable, recognised voice within their specific subfield. Cited and invited but not central to general AI discourse.
Recognised in alignment community.
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.
FHI/Apollo Research alignment work from late 2010s; out-of-context reasoning research in scaling era.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
Strategy positions
Alignment firstendorses
Solve technical alignment before capability thresholds closeRuns empirical research program demonstrating scheming-style behaviours in large models; argues governance frameworks need this evidence base.
Frontier models can scheme. That's now an empirical observation, not a theoretical concern.
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Record last updated 2026-04-24.