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Oliver Zhang

Co-founder and Managing Director, Center for AI Safety

Oliver Zhang is a co-founder and the Managing Director of the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), a research nonprofit that works to reduce societal-scale risks from AI. Zhang previously co-founded the MATS program, which mentors early-career researchers in AI safety.12

At a glance

Current role
Co-founder and Managing Director
Sector
Nonprofit
Work listed
1
Sources cited
2
Profile reviewed

Career

Zhang co-founded the MATS program, which mentors early-career researchers in AI safety. Zhang is a co-founder of the Center for AI Safety and serves as its Managing Director, alongside Dan Hendrycks as Executive and Research Director.12

CAIS describes its work as research, field-building and advocacy to reduce AI risk, including a compute cluster that supports outside research labs, field-building projects, and collaborations and advising.2

Work and contributions

  • MATS program

    Co-founded the MATS program, which has mentored early-career researchers who went on to work on AI safety at organizations including Anthropic, DeepMind, the UK AI Safety Institute and OpenAI.1

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

  • Co-founder, MATS program1

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References

2 sources · profile reviewed Oct 22, 2026 · data updated Oct 22, 2026

  1. Oliver Zhang, Managing Director at Center for AI SafetyCenter for AI Safety · Official page · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  2. Center for AI Safety — About (leadership)Center for AI Safety · Official page · accessed Oct 22, 2026