Connor Leahy is the US 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 founding the AI safety startup Conjecture. Connor is now focused on policy solutions to the threat posed by the development of superintelligent AI.

He is a leading expert on risk from advanced AI who has appeared on Fox News, CNN, and BBC. He has also briefed the governments of countries including the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and Singapore on the extinction risk from superintelligent AI and ways to address it.