Miles Brundage is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at IFP and the Executive Director of the AI Verification and Evaluation Research Institute (AVERI), a nonprofit focused on making third-party auditing of frontier AI systems effective and universal. In addition to his role at IFP, Miles advises a range of organizations, including Epoch AI and the RAND Corporation, and he is a member of the CNAS AI Governance Forum and the AI Policy and Governance Working Group. Miles writes regularly on Substack.

Previously, Miles led the Policy Research and AGI Readiness teams at OpenAI, and before that he worked at the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford and the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) at the US Department of Energy. During his tenure at OpenAI, he managed a team that developed OpenAI’s expert red teaming program and assessed the societal impacts of several generations of OpenAI’s technologies. Miles has led or co-led influential research projects on a range of topics, such as trustworthy AI development, the malicious use of AI, and the role of computing power in the governance of AI. He has advised research on frontier AI regulation, the economic impacts of AI, and the potential for international cooperation on AI. In his research with IFP, Miles focuses on ways that governments can accelerate beneficial AI technologies and increase societal resilience for advances in AI.

Miles earned a B.A. in Political Science from George Washington University and a PhD in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology from Arizona State University.