About Us
Our Values
- Rigour — We prioritize high-quality, methodical research grounded in formal models, and embrace negative results when they identify flaws in safety proposals, whether our own or others’.
- Transparency — We share our work openly where possible, including failures and dead ends.
- Openness — We remain open to exploring new ideas and abandoning or revisiting old ones.
- Collaboration — We believe progress requires coordination across the field.
- Impact — We focus on research that meaningfully reduces risk. To develop results that are robust instead of superficial, we value foundational work whose payoffs may not be immediate.
Core Team
- Cole Wyeth — Founder & Executive Director
- Marcus Hutter — Research Director (part-time)
- Aram Ebtekar — Founding Research Scientist
- Elena Kayayan - Business Operations Manager
Advisory Board
- Michael K. Cohen — Advisor
- Stan van Wingerden — Advisor
- Jan Farrell — Advisor
Legal Status
AIXI Labs is a fiscally sponsored project of Principles of Intelligence, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation incorporated in Minnesota, USA (EIN 33-4129337). Donations to AIXI Labs are received by Principles of Intelligence on our behalf, and are tax-deductible in the United States to the extent permitted by law.