Allison Duettmann, M.S.
Allison Duettmann, M.S. is part of the Foresight Institute Team and
Co-Producer of TEDx Echo Park.
The most recent paper she coauthored is
Cyber, Nano, and AGI Risks: Decentralized Approaches to Reducing Risks.
Allison is interested in applying good philosophy to guide disruptive
technologies toward the long-term flourishing of sentient life. She
holds a
Summa Cum Laude MS from the London School of Economics, where she
specialized in risk management for Artificial General Intelligence. She
hosted and planned TEDx, panels, workshops, exhibitions, debates, and
conferences for governments, companies, think tanks, NGOs, and the
public
in Germany, France, Colombia, the UK, and the US.
At Foresight Institute
she
conducts
research,
authors
reports,
and hosts
invitational technical meetings,
external workshops,
and
public salons.
Current
research focus is Existential Hope, i.e. creating positive long-term
pathways for humanity, and the reduction of Existential Risks,
especially
macro strategy, AI safety, and cybersecurity.
She was previously Analyst at Z_punkt The Foresight Company, Analyst at
Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp, Research Assistant at The Institute of
Ideas,
and Policy Analyst at the Government of Medellin, Colombia.
Allison earned her B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the
University of York in 2014. She earned her Summa Cum Laude MS from the
London School of Economics, in her 1st class dissertation she used
natural
language processing (NLP) to construct a moral framework for Artificial
General Intelligence.
Read her
LinkedIn profile.