Tim Fist

Source: https://aigi.ox.ac.uk/people/tim-fist/ Parent: https://aigi.ox.ac.uk/technical-ai-governance-programme/

Research Affiliate

Tim is a Senior Technology Fellow at the Institute for Progress in Washington, DC, where he leads an AI policy program. He’s also an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, where he conducts research on AI and compute through a national security lens.

Prior to working on AI policy, Tim led a strategy team at an AI hardware company and spent four years as a machine learning engineer. Tim’s AI policy work is focused on how government institutions and industry can use AI compute as a tool for governance, and accelerate the development of related technologies.

His writing has been featured in Foreign Policy and ChinaTalk, and his work has been cited in numerous outlets, including Wired, Reuters, Inside AI Policy, The Wire China, and the Wall Street Journal.‍

Press and Research

[arXiv

Frontier AI Regulation: Managing Emerging Risks to Public Safety

July 6, 2023](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03718 "Frontier AI Regulation: Managing Emerging Risks to Public Safety")

Publications

[#### Open Problems in Machine Unlearning for AI Safety

January 20, 2025](https://aigi.ox.ac.uk/publications/open-problems-in-machine-unlearning-for-ai-safety/ "Open Problems in Machine Unlearning for AI Safety")[#### Open Problems in Technical AI Governance

September 20, 2024](https://aigi.ox.ac.uk/publications/open-problems-in-technical-ai-governance/ "Open Problems in Technical AI Governance")[#### Governing Through the Cloud: The Intermediary Role of Compute Providers in AI Regulation

March 13, 2024](https://aigi.ox.ac.uk/publications/governing-through-the-cloud-the-intermediary-role-of-compute-providers-in-ai-regulation/ "Governing Through the Cloud: The Intermediary Role of Compute Providers in AI Regulation")