Adrian Brown

Deric Cheng

Director of Research

Deric is Director of Research at Windfall Trust, leading work on AI's fiscal and labour-market consequences and architect of the AGI Social Contract program. He is a Princeton-trained researcher, formerly AI Governance Lead at Convergence Analysis, with previous experience at Google X and early stage at Alchemy (now valued at $10 billion).

Getting ahead of AI's economic disruption

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