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Researcher · Founder · Executive

Connor Leahy

ControlAIUS Executive Director

🇩🇪 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.

Career & education

Current role
Mar 2026-present
US Executive Director
Previously
Dec 2021-Feb 2026
Founder and CEO
Jul 2020-Mar 2022
Founding Member
ResearcherJan 2021-Oct 2021
Machine Learning EngineerSep 2019-Jan 2021

Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

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