Deric Cheng

AI Governance Researcher at Convergence Analysis - leading a research program for evaluating governance recommendations.

Previously one of the first engineers at Alchemy, a crypto startup now with a $10.2 billion valuation. 

Before that, I was a hardware / interaction researcher at Google Glass, responsible for the design and engineering of the first real-time translation feature for earbuds on the Pixel Buds.

Posts

Forging A New AGI Social Contract
by Deric Cheng @ 2025-04-10 | +11 | 0 comments
A Taxonomy of Jobs Deeply Resistant to TAI Automation
by Deric Cheng @ 2025-03-18 | +37 | 0 comments
Conference Report: Threshold 2030 - Modeling AI Economic Futures
by Deric Cheng, Justin Bullock, Convergence Analysis, Deger Turan, Elliot Mckernon, Metaculus @ 2025-02-24 | +24 | 0 comments
Training Data Attribution: Examining Its Adoption & Use Cases
by Deric Cheng, Convergence Analysis, Justin Bullock, David_Kristoffersson @ 2025-01-22 | +18 | 0 comments
Aligning AI Safety Projects with a Republican Administration
by Deric Cheng @ 2024-11-21 | +13 | 0 comments
Soft Nationalization: How the US Government Will Control AI Labs
by Deric Cheng, Corin Katzke @ 2024-08-27 | +103 | 0 comments
2024 State of AI Regulatory Landscape
by Deric Cheng, Elliot Mckernon, Convergence Analysis @ 2024-05-28 | +12 | 0 comments
What you really mean when you claim to support “UBI for job automation”
by Deric Cheng @ 2024-05-14 | +18 | 0 comments
Reviewing the Structure of Current AI Regulations
by Deric Cheng, Elliot Mckernon, Convergence Analysis @ 2024-05-07 | +32 | 0 comments
Cybersecurity of Frontier AI Models: A Regulatory Review
by Deric Cheng, Elliot Mckernon, Convergence Analysis @ 2024-04-25 | +9 | 0 comments
Report: Evaluating an AI Chip Registration Policy
by Deric Cheng, Convergence Analysis @ 2024-04-12 | +15 | 0 comments
AI Discrimination Requirements: A Regulatory Review
by Deric Cheng, Elliot Mckernon, Convergence Analysis @ 2024-04-04 | +8 | 0 comments
AI Model Registries: A Regulatory Review
by Deric Cheng, Elliot Mckernon, Convergence Analysis @ 2024-03-22 | +6 | 0 comments
AI Incident Reporting: A Regulatory Review
by Deric Cheng, Elliot Mckernon, Convergence Analysis @ 2024-03-11 | +10 | 0 comments