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Connor Leahy

Connor Leahy portrait

US Executive Director at ControlAI

🇩🇪 German-American

Leahy helped found EleutherAI, the open-research collective behind GPT-Neo and GPT-J, early public alternatives to proprietary language models. He later founded Conjecture to study how advanced AI might resist human control and now campaigns for limits on superintelligent systems.

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Background

Current role
US Executive Director Mar 2026-present
Previously
Dec 2021-Feb 2026Founder and CEO,
Jul 2020-Mar 2022Founding Member,
Jan 2021-Oct 2021Researcher,
Sep 2019-Jan 2021Machine Learning Engineer,
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 7, 2026

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