Thomas Larsen
Researcher at AI Futures Project
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Larsen is an AI safety researcher with 13 years of technical experience who designs policy and evaluation frameworks to reduce emerging risks from general-purpose models. Based in Washington, DC, he has worked at leading research and policy organizations—most recently at the AI Futures Project and the Center for AI Policy—where he translated technical insights into legislative proposals and strategy. His research spans dangerous capability evaluations, measuring safety techniques, compute governance, and agent foundations, including a novel method addressing inner alignment in model-based RL. Thomas combines hands-on ML research (computer vision and systems work) with policy advocacy, reflecting a rare blend of technical depth and regulatory fluency. He advocates for proactive government intervention to match the pace of AI capabilities, and has a track record of publishing and implementing reproducible experiments that bridge theory and real-world governance.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Mathematics, 3.9/4.0, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Mathematics, 3.9/4.0 at University of Michigan
Github Skills (32)
px410
autopilot10
mavlink10
drones10
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netcdf8
usrp7
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explore7
indoor-positioning7
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
thomasteisberg/thomasteisberg.github.io
May 2021 - Jan 2026
A beautiful, simple, clean, and responsive Jekyll theme for academics
Contributions:23 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 8 months
responsive-jekyll-themeacademicscleanjekylljekyll-theme
radioglaciology/radarfilmstudio
Feb 2021 - Feb 2025
Web-based tool to view, explore, and label scanned SPRI film data
Contributions:4 PRs, 24 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years
explorefilmweb-basedfilm-dataspri
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