Our mission is to direct technological development towards the collective good.

Team

  • Co-Founder & Executive Director

    Divya Siddarth is the executive director and co-founder of CIP. Previously, she has been a political economist and social technologist in Microsoft’s Office of the CTO, the AI and Democracy lead at the U.K.’s AI Safety Institute, and held positions at the Ethics in AI Institute at Oxford, the Ostrom Workshop, and the Harvard Safra Center. She graduated from Stanford with a B.S. in Computational Decision Analysis in 2018

  • Projects Lead

    Evan is a specialist in Human Computation, with past experience at Twitter and Clara Labs. An early organizer with Interact, a community of forward-thinking technologists, he has presented on the convergence of metaphysics, religion, society, and transformative tech. He lives in Mount Shasta, California.

  • Senior Research Fellow

    Audrey served as Taiwan’s 1st Digital Minister (2016-2024) and was named to TIME’s “100 Most Influential People in AI” list in 2023. Tang is widely recognized for her visionary leadership, having helped shape Taiwan’s COVID-19 response, safeguard its 2024 elections from cyber-interference, and institutionalized collective intelligence platforms such as Join.gov.tw, Presidential Hackathon and Ideathon.

  • Research Director

    Zarinah is a neuroscientist, that now works on emerging technologies and the science of collectivity. They had a 15 year career in academia, were then president of Irrational Labs & the Social Science Observatory, and remain faculty at London College of Political Technology. In previous lives, Zarinah has run a science hotel, been an Aspen Foresight Fellow and a science consultant.

  • Communications and Operations Lead

    Joal Stein is a communications strategist working across art, philosophy, and technology. He has received fellowships from Banff Centre, Autodesk Foundation, Rauschenberg Foundation, and ToftH.

    Previously, he was Director of Strategy and Communications at Transformations of the Human, and has worked for the UN-Habitat, Summit Series, and NYU Stern School of Business. He regularly writes and lectures on urbanism, architecture, silence, language, creativity, and artificial intelligence

  • Founding Engineer

    James is a software engineer and published author enjoying his work at the intersection of AI accessibility and social impact. Previously at Meta, Stripe, and Twitter, he helped build integrity systems, teach programming, and improve global economic infrastructure. Following an intentional departure from the ills of Silicon Valley, he briefly trained to become a paramedic before having a stroke in 2019, and now has been–in his eyes–recalled to the land of technology to lend voices to those disempowered and to help diffuse the grip of western monoculture on technology that should be equally owned and shaped by all of humanity. He enjoys developing AI tools for book recommendations, legislative analysis and disability advocacy. He lives between London and Beijing.

  • Co-Founder & Technology Advisor

    Saffron Huang was previously a research engineer at DeepMind working on topics such as multi-agent RL and language models, and has worked on technology governance research with organizations such as the Berkman Klein Center. She co-founded Kernel Magazine.

  • Treasurer

    Austin is a technologist and product manager; his day job is working on language models at Google. He is interested in technical problems with novel societal implications. His past work includes Bluetooth-based exposure notifications during COVID-19, data usage for training generative models, and privacy preserving machine learning.

  • Head of Global Partnerships

    Faisal M. Lalani is a global community organizer with a background in building international coalitions, advising policymakers, and preserving human rights and democracy. He has worked all over the world — including in Nepal, South Africa, India, the UK, Sri Lanka, and the US — and has expertise in digital rights, education reform, public health, climate and energy transitions, clinical psychology, foreign policy, and social movements.

Advisory Council

Community Council

Our Community Council is an evolving group of allies and fellow travelers working on aligned projects. As part of catalyzing and supporting an ecosystem of change, we hold quarterly calls, share our work, and support each other’s efforts. CIP would not exist without the care and brilliance of our community; our work is itself very much a product of collective intelligence.

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