Our Team on AI Safety Türkiye

Bengüsu Özcan

Sat, 12 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Bengüsu studied engineering and psychology at Sabancı University and holds a master’s degree in social data science from Columbia University. She is the co-founder and director of AI Safety Turkey. She conducts research on advanced AI governance and policy at the Center for Future Generations, a Brussels-based research institute. Her areas of interest include international coordination in advanced AI governance, AI safety standards, and semiconductor industry-based security policies.

Berke Çelik

Sat, 12 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Berke graduated from the Philosophy Department at Boğaziçi University and is the co-founder and director of AI Safety Turkey. He serves as director of the development program at Global Policy Research Group. His other areas of interest include AI policy in developing countries and decision theory.

Sayhan Yalvaçer

Sat, 12 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Sayhan, an alumnus of the Department of Philosophy at Boğaziçi University, counts the alignment problem, autoregressive transformers, the rationalist community (LW), and secular demographic trends among his principal areas of interest.

Alparslan Bayrak

Sat, 12 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Alparslan is a senior philosophy student at Bilkent University. His main areas of interest are global priorities and suffering risks (s-risks) research. He focuses on conflict scenarios that may arise from the development and deployment of advanced AI systems, and the philosophical aspects of cooperative AI.

İrem Sena Karakoç

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

İrem graduated from Bilkent University with a degree in Philosophy. Her primary research interests include AI-driven systemic risks, the economic impacts of transformative AI, and AI governance strategies in developing nations.