Sean McGregor is a machine learning safety researcher whose efforts have included starting up the Digital Safety Research Institute at the UL Research Institutes, launching the AI Incident Database, and training edge neural network models for the neural accelerator startup Syntiant. With an applications-centred research program spanning reinforcement learning for wildfire suppression and deep learning for heliophysics, Sean has covered a wide range of safety-critical domains. Outside his day jobs, Sean’s open source development work has earned media attention in the Atlantic, Der Spiegel, Wired, Venture Beat, Vice, and O’Reilly, while his technical publications have appeared in a variety of machine learning, human-computer interaction, ethics, and application-centred proceedings. He is currently serving as executive director for the AI Incident Database, lead of the ML Commons Agentic Workstream, and co-founder of a stealth AI safety non-profit.
