Peter Cihon
Senior Advisor, U.S. Center For AI Standards And Innovation (CAISI)
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Cihon is a senior policy and standards advisor focused on shaping governance for frontier AI, currently serving at NIST’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation after leading public policy strategy for developer communities at GitHub. He blends academic training from Cambridge, Oxford, and Williams with hands-on policy work across international bodies like OECD.AI and the European Commission to translate technical risk into pragmatic regulation. His expertise spans AI safety, cybersecurity, and the labor implications of automation, informed by publications and roles at GovAI and the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute. Known for connecting researcher, industry, and government perspectives, he advances evaluations of national-security-relevant AI models while advocating for policies that sustain open-source innovation. An underappreciated strength is his track record of operationalizing complex policy ideas into stakeholder-aligned engagement strategies that developers can actually act on.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Social Science of the Internet & Public Policy, Social Science of the Internet & Public Policy at University of OxfordMaster of Philosophy - MPhil, Technology Policy, Master of Philosophy - MPhil, Technology Policy at University of CambridgeBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Sociology & Political Economy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Sociology & Political Economy at Williams College
Github Skills (9)
procedures10
github-issues10
policies10
privacy-policy10
github10
python3
open-data3
open-government2
open-source1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pcihon/site-policy
Dec 2020 - Apr 2021
Collaborative development on GitHub's site policies, procedures, and guidelines
Contributions:57 PRs, 164 pushes, 25 branches in 3 months
policies-procedurespoliciesguidelinescollaborativeprocedures
github/developer-policy
Jun 2021 - Sep 2022
The GitHub Policy Team created and maintains this repository as a place for developers to contribute to our policy work.
Contributions:28 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 3 months
for-developersplacepolicy
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