Connor Leahy is the U.S. Executive Director of ControlAI and a major voice in the AI conversation. He initially gained prominence for founding EleutherAI, a grassroots community that built the first open-source LLMs, and later the AI safety startup Conjecture. Connor now focuses on policy solutions to the threat of runaway machine intelligence.

He is a leading expert on risks from advanced AI who has appeared on outlets like CNN, Fox News, and CBS News. His expert commentary is regularly featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Financial Times, Axios, and more.

He briefs members of Congress and officials across the federal government on the extinction risk from runaway machine intelligence and ways to address it. He has also briefed other the government of other countries including the UK, Canada, Australia, and Singapore.