Ben Bucknall
I'm also an affiliate at the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, and, until recently, was a research scholar at the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI) and a technical advisor at the UK's AI Security Institute. I served as co-principal organiser for the inaugural Workshop on Technical AI Governance at ICML 2025. In previous lives I've studied mathematics at Durham University and computational science at Uppsala University; worked as an actor in northern Finland; completed Prague Marathon in 3:57; solo backpacked from the Baltics to the Balkans; and earned a diploma (DipABRSM) on the violin.
Ben Bucknall Ben Bucknall Email Google Scholar Twitter/X I'm currently a DPhil (PhD) student in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford where my research focusses on technical AI governance . I'm incredibly fortunate to be supervised by Michael Osborne (Department of Engineering Science) and Robert Trager (Blavatnik School of Government), and funded by an EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership . I'm also an affiliate at the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative and a chapter lead for the 2026 International AI Safety Report . Until recently, I was a visiting research student at the Stanfo
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