person

Shahar Avin

Cambridge CSER senior research associate

Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk researcher whose 'malicious use of AI' report has shaped policy thinking on AI security risks. Co-founded the Future of Life Institute.

current Senior Research Associate, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (Cambridge)

@shahar_avin

Strategy positions

Governance firstendorses

Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimes

Authored foundational analyses of malicious AI use including the 2018 Malicious Use of AI report.

Malicious use of AI is not a future problem. It is a current and rapidly developing one.

§ paperThe Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence· Future of Humanity Institute / CSER / OpenAI / EFF· 2018-02-20· faithful paraphrase

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Abeba Birhane
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Mozilla Foundation senior advisor; AI ethics researcher
Adam Tooze
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Columbia historian; Chartbook newsletter
Adrian Weller
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Cambridge professor; Alan Turing Institute fellow
Adrienne LaFrance
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The Atlantic executive editor; technology critic
Adrienne Williams
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Akash Wasil
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Encode Justice; AI policy advocate

Record last updated 2026-04-25.