Connor Dunlop
AI governance, verification infrastructure, geopolitics.
Founding team, Lucid Computing.
About
I work on how governments and institutions can verify trustworthy behaviour in advanced AI systems — through policy, through verification infrastructure, and through the physical hardware itself.
I head up policy and strategy at Lucid Computing. Lucid was founded on the belief that significant chunks of the economy and government will be run by AI in the near future. Just as the human economy runs on trust — think proofs of identity like passports, or proofs of reputation like credit scores — we urgently need to build similar proofs of trust for the AI economy. Lucid is building the hardware-rooted verification infrastructure to make that possible. My role involves ensuring our technology is adapted to the needs of governments seeking to securely deploy advanced AI, and informing what we build through ecosystem engagement and high-level briefings on AI verification technology.
Previously I set up and led the EU and global governance programme at the Ada Lovelace Institute, where my research informed the International AI Safety Report, the EU Code of Practice on General-Purpose AI (GPAI), and the UK government’s white paper on AI regulation, among others. Before that I worked in EU public affairs, at the UN Refugee Agency’s innovation unit, and on emerging technology at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies.
I grew up in Belfast, spent five years in Brussels, and now live in London.
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A startup building hardware-rooted verification of important properties of AI software, and the security of the hardware they run on. Heading up policy and strategy — ensuring our technology is adapted to the needs of governments seeking to securely deploy advanced AI.
Advising and defining the organisational roadmap for a foundation developing reference architectures and red-teaming infrastructure for treaty-verifiable datacentres.
Building an open-source platform to sustain engagement with human-authored writing in the post-AGI era.
Supervising two research fellows at the Centre for the Governance of AI, University of Oxford.