Through 2025, first appointments to public AI advisory and safety bodies peaked in 2023
Data as of
- First appointments in 2023
- 25
- People in public AI roles
- 58
- Public AI bodies
- 10
When did the people shaping AI enter public advisory and safety roles? Among complete years, we find the largest group of first recorded appointments in 2023: 25 people. Our estimates cover 58 people across 10 bodies.
Key findings
- Among complete years, the largest group of first dated appointments falls in 2023: 25 people.
- The largest career category is Public voices: 42 of 58 people.
- 5 people have served at several of these bodies.
We count advisers and staff at named public AI advisory bodies, taskforces, an oversight board and safety institutes in the biographies of the people we track. Each person counts once per body across their career. The table below names the bodies included.
When did these public AI roles begin?
Columns show the first dated public AI appointment for 51 people. 2023 has the largest count, at 25.
Source: People of Superintelligence biographies and organization records, 18 October 2026. Counts use biography roles. Career data also include OpenAlex (CC0).
Data table
| First dated start year | People | Who |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2 | Eric Schmidt and Jason Matheny |
| 2019 | 1 | Ylli Bajraktari |
| 2020 | 0 | |
| 2021 | 2 | Elham Tabassi and Valentine Goddard |
| 2022 | 16 | Amanda Ballantyne, Ashley Llorens, Christina Montgomery, Daniel E. Ho, Fred Oswald, Janet Haven, Keith Strier, Liz O’Sullivan, Miriam Vogel, Navrina Singh, Paula Goldman, Sayan Chakraborty, Susan Gonzales, Swami Sivasubramanian, Trooper Sanders and Victoria A. Espinel |
| 2023 | 25 | Abeba Birhane, Alondra Nelson, Amandeep Singh Gill, Andreas Krause, Anna Abramova, Arisa Ema, Carme Artigas, Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem, Geoffrey Irving, Ian Bremmer, Ian Hogarth, Jaan Tallinn, Jade Leung, James Manyika, Marietje Schaake, Matt Clifford, Nate Burnikell, Nighat Dad, Oliver Ilott, Omar Sultan Al Olama, Vilas Dhar, Virginia Dignum, Wendy Hall, Yi Zeng and Zhang Linghan |
| 2024 | 5 | Adam Russell, Christopher Summerfield, Elizabeth Kelly, Paul Christiano and Petri Myllymäki |
| 2025 | 0 |
We can date an appointment for 55 of the 58 people. The chart covers 51 people through 2025. We record another 4 first dated appointments in 2026 so far.
Missing earlier appointments can shift a person's recorded entry year.
Which bodies connect these careers?
Horizontal bars compare 4 public AI bodies by distinct people with biography-recorded roles. The largest count is 22.
Source: People of Superintelligence biographies and organization records, 18 October 2026. Counts use biography roles. Career data also include OpenAlex (CC0).
Data table
The largest count is at United Nations Secretary-General’s High-level Advisory Body on AI: 22 people. We group Frontier AI Taskforce and its earlier name with its successor, UK AI Security Institute.
The 5 people who have served at several bodies are Elham Tabassi, James Manyika, Janet Haven, Oliver Ilott and Ylli Bajraktari.
Among bodies with national country codes, the United States has the most people: 25. International bodies account for 22 people. Country codes are missing for bodies involving 4 people. Country groups can overlap.
We find dated earlier roles at 99 organizations across 47 of these careers.
Career data comes from the biographies on this site and from OpenAlex author records, as of 18 October 2026. People whose OpenAlex record may be incomplete or mixed are left out of citation figures.