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.

Posts

A Plausible AI Economic Scenario
by Deric Cheng @ 2025-10-19 | +10 | 0 comments
Forging A New AGI Social Contract
by Deric Cheng @ 2025-04-10 | +13 | 0 comments
A Taxonomy of Jobs Deeply Resistant to TAI Automation
by Deric Cheng @ 2025-03-18 | +40 | 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 | +22 | 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