Daniel Kokotajlo

Daniel Kokotajlo is an artificial intelligence researcher and the executive director of the AI Futures Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit research organization based in Berkeley, California. He previously worked as a governance researcher at OpenAI from 2022 to 2024, where he resigned while refusing to sign a non-disparagement clause and subsequently called for greater transparency and a right to warn about AI risks. He is best known for his AI forecasting work, including the 2021 blog post What 2026 Looks Like and the 2025 scenario report AI 2027, which predicted rapid progress in AI automation leading toward AGI.