About Us

Before starting Palisade, Jeffrey helped build out the information security program at Anthropic. Jeffrey’s research has included analyzing risks at the intersection of cybersecurity and AI, and he has helped advise the White House, Department of Defense, and congressional offices on risks from AI and emerging technologies. When not busy applying the security mindset to everything, Jeffrey loves to roller blade, ski and snowboard, and explore places rarely disturbed by a human presence.

Eli has been professionally focused on risks from advanced AI since 2015, including running educational workshops with the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. In addition to his work at Palisade, Eli supports grantmaking at Jaan Tallinn’s Survival and Flourishing Fund.

Ben is a researcher and software engineer focused on AI and related fields. In addition to his work with Palisade, he is acting director of AI Impacts, and has been a member of the technical staff at SecureDNA, Redwood Research, MIRI, and Cruise Automation. He holds several patents related to autonomous vehicles, and has contributed to research in AI safety, information security, and forecasting.

Dmitrii leads Palisade’s research execution, using his remarkable networking acumen to grow our team and collaborations on the daily. To join us, he dropped out of a cybersecurity x formal methods PhD at Purdue; before, he worked on compilers with Jetbrains and operating systems with Kaspersky. Dmitrii is proud of his flock of badllamas and the summer schools he hosts.

Jeremy is a software engineer who has previously worked for the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Google, and OpenAI, as well as other Silicon Valley tech companies. Some of the public projects he has contributed to include OpenAI’s Dota 2 bot and a debugger for the Go programming language. Jeremy holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Washington University in St. Louis.

Kyle is the Operations Manager at Model Evaluation and Threat Research, which works to evaluate capabilities and develop alignment techniques for cutting-edge machine learning models. He has over a decade of experience in non profit administration and spends his spare time crawling around on the floor with the newest member of his family.