Renan Araujo

Background

About Renan Araujo

Navigating transformative AI will be incredibly challenging—we need the best people cooperating to tackle it. I lead teams, design programs, and do policy research to increase talent working on AI policy and coordination among key actors. I specialize in the international governance of advanced AI. I’m a Research Manager at the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS) where I lead our programs portfolio and international AI governance research. I also work closely with the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative on their international governance workstream, and with the Oxford China Policy Lab. I’m a lawyer with experience in comparative policy and emergent technologies. My research interests include emerging governmental institutions handling advanced AI, the implications of stronger state involvement in developing AGI, and Sino-Western relations on AI. I’m also supervising research on Brazilian AI legislation. Besides research, I design programs to find and bolster talented people to work on AI policy, mainly via the IAPS Fellowship, and run coordination activities, such as one-off conferences and regular working groups, to ensure we‘re making the most of the talent we have. I also co-founded and advise the Condor Initiative, an educational nonprofit that elevates talented students from LMIC to work on AI safety and governance. Managing people and getting teams off the ground are a core part of my work, and beyond managing researchers and fellows at IAPS, I'm an advisor and board member of several nonprofits in the AI policy space, and mentor aspiring AI policy professionals in various programs. Previously, I worked on emergent technologies with a focus on AI governance at Rethink Priorities, did comparative legal research at the Institute for Law and AI, and was a chief of staff for justices of appeal at a state court in Brazil, where I'm a registered lawyer. The photograph on my banner is a starling murmuration shot by Søren Solkær for his stunning series Black Sun (all rights are his).