David Williams-King
Biography
Having earned a PhD at Columbia University focused on enabling binaries to defend themselves, David has developed expertise in systems and cybersecurity. He spent four years as the founding CTO of a cybersecurity insurance startup, leading all technical software and infrastructure projects and managing a team of 20 or more engineers. He then transitioned to the AI safety field, where he makes video explainers about AI safety and researches LLM jailbreaks and guardrails. David has received grants and accolades for his work from FLI, SFF and many other entities, including an ISEF prize at a Turing award ceremony.