Deric Cheng
I'm an AI policy researcher serving as the Director of Research for the Windfall Trust, a non-profit focused on ensuring that the economic benefits of advanced AI are shared by everyone.
I also lead the AGI Social Contract, a consortium of experts proposing concrete strategies to design a new social contract for a post-AGI society.
My current priority is to drastically increase the number of researchers investigating strategies to navigate the upcoming AI economic transformation.
I was formerly the AI Governance Lead for Convergence Analysis. At Convergence, I hosted a conference on AI economic impacts and have been guiding thirty fellows conducting economic policy research. Before my focus on AI economics, I conducted research on foundational AI governance policies (e.g. chip registries & model registries) & soft nationalization.
Previously, I was the fifth software engineer and the lead of various projects at Alchemy, an Ethereum infra startup now valued at $10.2 billion. At Alchemy, I created web3.university, a learning platform with over 200k students.
From 2015 - 2018, I was a rapid prototyping researcher at Google's Interaction Lab, where I led software & UX explorations for a next-gen Google Glass. Projects I prototyped include the augmented memory and translation features for the Android XR Glasses.
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by Deric Cheng @ 2025-03-18 | +40 | 0 comments
by Deric Cheng, Justin Bullock, Convergence Analysis, Deger Turan, Elliot Mckernon, Metaculus @ 2025-02-24 | +24 | 0 comments
by Deric Cheng, Convergence Analysis, Justin Bullock, David_Kristoffersson @ 2025-01-22 | +18 | 0 comments
by Deric Cheng @ 2024-11-21 | +13 | 0 comments
by Deric Cheng, Corin Katzke @ 2024-08-27 | +103 | 0 comments
by Deric Cheng, Elliot Mckernon, Convergence Analysis @ 2024-05-28 | +12 | 0 comments
by Deric Cheng @ 2024-05-14 | +22 | 0 comments
by Deric Cheng, Elliot Mckernon, Convergence Analysis @ 2024-05-07 | +32 | 0 comments
by Deric Cheng, Elliot Mckernon, Convergence Analysis @ 2024-04-25 | +9 | 0 comments
by Deric Cheng, Convergence Analysis @ 2024-04-12 | +15 | 0 comments
by Deric Cheng, Elliot Mckernon, Convergence Analysis @ 2024-04-04 | +8 | 0 comments
by Deric Cheng, Elliot Mckernon, Convergence Analysis @ 2024-03-22 | +6 | 0 comments
by Deric Cheng, Elliot Mckernon, Convergence Analysis @ 2024-03-11 | +10 | 0 comments