Adam Gleave Named Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellow
November 5, 2025
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FAR.AI Launches Inaugural Technical Innovations for AI Policy Conference, Connecting Over 150 Experts to Shape AI Governance
WASHINGTON, D.C. — June 4, 2025 — FAR.AI successfully launched the inaugural Technical Innovations for AI Policy Conference, creating a vital bridge between cutting-edge AI research and actionable policy solutions. The two-day gathering (May 31–June 1) convened more than 150 technical experts, researchers, and policymakers to address the most pressing challenges at the intersection of AI technology and governance.
Organized in collaboration with the Foundation for American Innovation (FAI), the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), and the RAND Corporation, the conference tackled urgent challenges including semiconductor export controls, hardware-enabled governance mechanisms, AI safety evaluations, data center security, energy infrastructure, and national defense applications.
"I hope that today this divide can end, that we can bury the hatchet and forge a new alliance between innovation and American values, between acceleration and altruism that will shape not just our nation's fate but potentially the fate of humanity," said Mark Beall, President of the AI Policy Network, addressing the critical need for collaboration between Silicon Valley and Washington.
Keynote speakers included Congressman Bill Foster, Saif Khan (Institute for Progress), Helen Toner (CSET), Mark Beall (AI Policy Network), Brad Carson (Americans for Responsible Innovation), and Alex Bores (New York State Assembly). The diverse program featured over 20 speakers from leading institutions across government, academia, and industry.
Key themes emerged around the urgency of action, with speakers highlighting a critical 1,000-day window to establish effective governance frameworks. Concrete proposals included Congressman Foster's legislation mandating chip location-verification to prevent smuggling, the RAISE Act requiring safety plans and third-party audits for frontier AI companies, and strategies to secure the 80-100 gigawatts of additional power capacity needed for AI infrastructure.
FAR.AI will share recordings and materials from on-the-record sessions in the coming weeks. For more information and a complete speaker list, visit https://far.ai/events/event-list/technical-innovations-for-ai-policy-2025.
About FAR.AI
Founded in 2022, FAR.AI is an AI safety research nonprofit that facilitates breakthrough research, fosters coordinated global responses, and advances understanding of AI risks and solutions.
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Adam Gleave, co-founder and CEO of FAR.AI, has been named as one of Schmidt Sciences’ AI2050 Early Career Fellows. Co-chaired by Eric Schmidt and James Manyika, the Schmidt Sciences’ AI2050 Early Career Fellowship is an ambitious project aiming to answer a fundamental question: "It's 2050. AI has turned out to be hugely beneficial to society. What happened? What are the most important problems we solved and the opportunities and possibilities we realized to ensure this outcome?"
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We are excited to announce that Adam Gleave, co-founder and CEO of FAR.AI, has been named as one of Schmidt Sciences’ AI2050 Early Career Fellows. This year’s cohort of AI2050 Fellows include 28 researchers from 42 institutions across eight countries, who are collectively receiving more than $18 million to advance AI for the benefit of humanity.
What is the fellowship?
Co-chaired by Eric Schmidt and James Manyika, the Schmidt Sciences’ AI2050 Early Career Fellowship is an ambitious project aiming to answer a fundamental question: "It’s 2050. AI has turned out to be hugely beneficial to society. What happened? What are the most important problems we solved and the opportunities and possibilities we realized to ensure this outcome?"
Eric and Wendy Schmidt have committed $125 million in funding over the course of 5 years to the initiative, started in 2022. In addition to funding, this fellowship aims to build a research community tackling problems critical for ensuring advanced AI is safe and beneficial for everyone. You can learn more about the types of problems Schmidt Sciences is aiming to address from their Working List of Hard Problems in AI.
Adam’s research
Adam will be leading a project that develops techniques to detect and eliminate undesirable hidden behaviors in advanced AI systems. Just as security researchers find and fix vulnerabilities in software, this research will create methods to audit AI models for concealed objectives that could lead to harmful actions. Through a "red-team/blue-team" approach, the team will first create models with sophisticated hidden behaviors, then develop tools to identify and remove them. This work addresses risks from both malicious actors inserting backdoors in models, and unintentional AI misalignment. The resulting methods will help ensure that increasingly powerful AI systems are trustworthy, allowing society to benefit from AI advances while managing potential risks.
Red-team/blue-team approaches are already common for fields like security, where it’s critical that vulnerabilities in the software are found and fixed before an incident occurs.
Thank you to the AI2050 Program at Schmidt Sciences for the opportunity to work on these important research projects. Read the full announcement at https://www.schmidtsciences.org/schmidt-sciences-awards-18m-to-researchers-working-to-ensure-ai-benefits-society/
