The Meaning Alignment Institute is a research organization with the goal of ensuring human flourishing in the age of AGI, through our unique expertise in meaning and values.

TEAM

  • Joe Edelman

    CO-FOUNDER, PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

    Joe created a family of survey-based metrics called “Time Well Spent” that led directly to changes in the ranking functions of Facebook News Feed, the Apple App Store, and other products at Apple, Google, and Facebook. Joe was also a co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology (which was then called "Time Well Spent").

  • Ellie Hain

    CO-FOUNDER, STRATEGY & PARTNERSHIPS

    Ellie’s work is at the intersection of meaning and broader societal transformation. She researches meaning centric social narratives, the theology of meaning and value, and economic and political systems designed around meaning. She leads partnerships and strategy at MAI and is currently working on spreading and legitimizing our vision for a meaning centric future amongst key stakeholders in AI, policy and the cultural sphere.

  • Oliver Klingefjord

    CO-FOUNDER, TECH LEAD

    Oliver is an engineer and researcher, with a background building startups and a keen interest in continental philosophy. Most recently, he simulated democratic deliberation using LLMs.

EXTENDED TEAM

  • Ryan Lowe

    RESEARCH PARTNER

    Ryan was the co-lead for GPT-4 alignment at OpenAI.

  • Joel Lehman

    RESEARCH PARTNER

    Joel is the co-inventor of novelty search. He previously worked at OpenAI on open ended search algorithms.

  • Ivan Vendrov

    RESEARCH PARTNER

    Ivan worked on recommender systems and LLMs at Anthropic and Google Brain.

  • Peter Francis

    PARTNERS & STRATEGY

    Peter founded FluidStack, a GPU cloud for LLMs, and was a humanitarian in Iraq and Lebanon.

ADVISORS

  • Aviv Ovayada

    Aviv Ovayada

    AI and Governance

    Researcher, Harvard Berkman Klein Center

  • Brian Christian

    Brian Christian

    AI

    Best-selling author, “The Alignment Problem”

  • Peter Wang

    Peter Wang

    Strategy and AI

    CEO & Co-Founder, Anaconda

  • Liv Boeree

    Liv Boeree

    Media and X-Risk

    Win-Win Podcast, Public Speaker

  • Jordan Hall

    Strategy and Philosophy

    Co-Founder, Neurohacker Collective

MEDIA

The Gradient
Forbes
Village Global

COMMUNITY COUNCIL

  • Anne-Lorraine Selke

    Anne-Lorraine Selke

  • Jake Orthwein

    Jake Orthwein

  • Morgan Sutherland

  • Timour Kosters

    Timour Kosters

  • Max Heald

    Max Heald

  • Shelby Stevens

    Shelby Stevens

  • Toby Shorin

  • Kerry Vaughan

    Kerry Vaughan

  • Scott Moore

    Scott Moore

JOIN THE TEAM

We're always looking for pioneering labs and individuals to help us build Wise AI and new institutions for human flourishing. Write to us if you'd like to become a partner.