Jonathan Barry

AI governance · sovereignty · systems risk

I work at the intersection of technology and public policy—thinking about how powerful systems should (and shouldn't) be built, deployed, and governed. I'm interested in rigourous work that stays readable, and ideas that hold up outside the lab. Director of Policy to Yoshua Bengio at Mila and LawZero.

Jonathan Barry

Selected Work

Research, essays, and public commentary

A Blueprint for Multinational Advanced AI Development

2025 · Grateful for many collaborators

Bridge powers need frontier AI to stay relevant.

The Development of the UN Scientific Panel on AI

2025 · Mila

The UN's planned Independent International Scientific Panel on AI should be designed to balance scientific independence, political legitimacy, and policy relevance.

International AI Safety Report

2025 · Mila + UK AI Security Institute

Part of the secretariat for the premier piece of AI scientific synthesis.