Changlin began his career at the Systemized Intelligence Lab at Bridgewater Associates for 5 years before joining Vowel.com (now acquired by Zapier) as a founding engineer for 4 years. Along the way he did a stint at the Recurse Center in New York City studying formal verification of software and then another stint at the Recurse Center with a focus on modern AI and AI safety. He holds an A.B. in Mathematics with a Secondary Concentration in Comparative Religion from Harvard University.
Max played online poker professionally for 5 years. In 2019, he spent 4 months at the Recurse Center focused on AI and reinforcement learning. He received a grant from MIRI to upskill in machine learning and then joined the AI Safety Camp as a participant in 2020 and as an organizer in 2021. He is now working on Poker Camp, a nonprofit that uses poker as a tool to teach probability, AI, and decision making under uncertainty. He has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University and an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Technion Israel Institute of Technology.
Mackenzie graduated from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science. During his time there, he served as a research fellow at the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Lab, focusing on deep learning applications in computer vision. Later, Mackenzie joined Arbol Inc. as a founding engineer, where he contributed to the development of weather data analytics and climate models for climate risk prediction.