Jacy Anthis
Student Researcher at Google DeepMind
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacy Anthis is a researcher and PhD candidate specializing in machine learning and human–AI interaction, focused on how general-purpose "digital minds" emerge and collaborate with humans. With 11 years of experience, he has published at CHI, ACL, and NeurIPS, presented in 28 countries, and been named a Rising Star in Data Science. He co-founded the Sentience Institute, has advised and researched at leading labs including Stanford, Berkeley, OpenAI Red Team, Microsoft, Google, and now Google DeepMind, blending rigorous social-science methods with hands-on ML research. His background in neuroscience and statistics informs a rare cross-disciplinary approach to modeling agency, emotion, and reasoning in AI systems. Outside academia he has driven impact-focused organizations—helping Animal Charity Evaluators scale influence—and lives in San Francisco with his wife and dog. Notably, his work straddles both ethical foresight and red-team practice, giving him a practical lens on AI safety and societal risk.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Neuroscience, Bachelor's degree, Neuroscience at The University of Texas at AustinDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Sociology and statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Sociology and statistics at University of Chicago
Github Skills (22)
ruby9
firefox-addon9
chrome-extension9
mvc9
rails9
activerecord8
html8
ruby-on-rails8
manifold8
accessibility7
reader7
chrome6
firefox6
finance6
browser-extension6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jacyanthis/jacyanthis.github.io
Dec 2015 - Jul 2021
Contributions:3 PRs, 674 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 7 months
UChicago-Computational-Content-Analysis/Homework-Notebooks-2023
Dec 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:116 commits, 1 PR, 108 pushes in 3 months
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