Andrew Critch

Dr. Andrew Critch is currently a part-time Research Scientist at CHAI, and spends most of his time away from UC Berkeley serving as CEO of Encultured AI.

He supports several other mission-driven projects such as the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative and the Survival and Flourishing Fund. He earned his Ph.D. in mathematics at UC Berkeley studying applications of algebraic geometry to machine learning models. Dr. Critch has been offered university faculty and research positions in mathematics, mathematical biosciences, and philosophy, worked as an algorithmic stock trader at Jane Street Capital’s New York City office, and as a Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. His current research interests include logical uncertainty, open source game theory, and mitigating race dynamics between companies and nations in AI development. You can read more about Dr. Critch’s work and accomplishments at his website.