Renan Araujo

Director of Programs

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Renan Araujo is the Director of Programs at the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS), where he leads the AI Policy Fellowship, the Alexandria Forum, and IAPS's portfolio of talent and field-building projects. Renan is also a research affiliate at the Oxford AI Governance Initiative.

Renan has been a member of the UN Council of Presidents expert panel on AGI, a fellow of the Oxford China Policy Lab, and the research manager leading IAPS's International Strategy team. Before joining IAPS, Renan was research manager on AI and emerging technologies at Rethink Priorities, director and cofounder of the Condor Initiative, predoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Law and AI, and a chief of staff to justices of appeal at a state court in Brazil. He’s a lawyer with a Bachelor of Law from the Federal University of Pernambuco and a master's degree in criminal justice policy from the London School of Economics.

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Oscar Delaney
Policy Options for Preserving Chain of Thought Monitorability
Oscar Delaney

The most advanced AI models produce detailed reasoning steps in human language—known as "chain of thought" (CoT)—that provide crucial oversight capabilities for ensuring these systems behave as intended. However, competitive pressures may drive developers toward more efficient but non-monitorable architectures that lack a human-readable CoT. This report presents a framework for determining when coordination mechanisms are needed to preserve CoT monitorability.

Oscar Delaney
Christopher Covino
IAPS Researchers React: The US AI Action Plan
Christopher Covino

The Trump Administration unveiled its comprehensive AI Action Plan on Wednesday. Experts at the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy reviewed the plan with an eye toward its national security implications. As AI continues to accelerate towards very powerful artificial general intelligence, our researchers discuss promising proposals for addressing critical AGI risks, offer key considerations for government implementation, and explore the plan's gaps and potential solutions.

Christopher Covino
Renan Araujo
Who should develop which AI evaluations?
Renan Araujo

This paper, published by the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, explores how to determine which actors are best suited to develop AI model evaluations. IAPS staff Renan Araujo, Oliver Guest, and Joe O’Brien were among the co-authors.

Renan Araujo
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