Our Team

Bengüsu Özcan

Bengüsu Özcan is a co-founder of AI Safety Turkey and contributes to research and community work with a background in engineering and data science.

Berke Çelik

Co-founder and Director of AI Safety Turkey. Director of the development program at Global Policy Research Group.

Sayhan Yalvaçer

Boğaziçi University Philosophy alumnus. Interests: alignment, autoregressive transformers, rationalist community, secular demographic trends.

Alparslan Bayrak

Alparslan Bayrak is a philosophy student at Bilkent University focused on global priorities, s-risks, and long-term AI governance.

İrem Sena Karakoç

İrem Sena Karakoç studies AI-driven systemic risks, the economic effects of transformative AI, and governance in developing countries.