Ben Bucknall is a Research Scholar at the Centre for the Governance of AI and an Affiliate with the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative.

Ben’s research centres on technical topics with downstream implications for AI policy and governance, with a particular focus on system access requirements for AI research and evaluation, as well as responsible deployment best practices. He is also interested in how technical AI expertise can best be integrated into policy-making as a means of promoting technically-informed and effective governance. In addition to his research, Ben also advises the UK Government on risk management for AI.

Ben holds a Master of Mathematics from Durham University and an MSc in Computational Science from Uppsala University, and was previously a research intern at the Krueger AI Safety Lab at the University of Cambridge, and a Winter Fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI.