Legal Priorities Project
Matthijs M. Maas is an expert in global governance strategies for artificial intelligence, currently serving as an Expert for the Global Commission on Responsible Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain and as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Law & AI. With extensive experience in research and governance, Matthijs has held positions as a Research Affiliate and Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge, and as a Non-resident Senior Member at King's College, Cambridge. Other notable roles include Associate Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and a PhD Fellowship at the University of Copenhagen focused on AI governance. Matthijs has contributed to various prestigious institutions, including the Center for the Governance of AI at the University of Oxford and the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, and has a diverse educational background in political science, international relations, and philosophy from several esteemed universities.
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Legal Priorities Project
The Legal Priorities Project is an independent, global research and field-building project founded by researchers at Harvard University. We conduct strategic legal research that mitigates existential risk and promotes the flourishing of future generations, and we build a field that shares these priorities. We currently focus on four cause areas: artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, institutional design, and meta-research. Our research is influenced by the principles of effective altruism and the longtermism paradigm.