Sean McGregor is a machine learning safety researcher and cofounder of AVERI, whose efforts have included launching the AI Incident Database, starting up the Digital Safety Research Institute at the UL Research Institutes, and training edge neural network models for the neural accelerator startup Syntiant.
Sean's open source development work has earned media attention in Time, the Atlantic, Der Spiegel, and Wired, among others, while his technical publications have appeared in a variety of machine learning, human-computer interaction, ethics, and application-centered proceedings.
Dr. McGregor currently serves as executive director for the AI Incident Database, lead of the ML Commons Agentic Workstream, and co-founder of AVERI. These efforts thematically align with an interest in "AI risk" and how we might understand those risks by building the capacity to insure them.
