Dr Konstantinos Voudouris is the cognitive sicentist on the Alignment Team at the UK AI Security Institute. He holds a PhD in psychology (2024) from the University of Cambridge.

His research focuses on advancing the sciences of AI alignment, scalable oversight, and AI evaluation, using tools from the cognitive sciences. Combining these diverse fields allows us to build better, safer, and more human-like AI systems, as well as informed and sensible AI policy. Konstantinos conducts empirical research in these fields as well as leveraging the funding of UK AISI to mobilise the wider cognitive science community towards these important problems. Konstantinos is a committed interdisciplinarian, with publications and active research projects in machine learning, AI safety & governance, cognitive psychology, psychometrics, the philosophy of science, evolutionary biology, and linguistics.

You can read an annotated list of his key publications here.

People call me Kozzy for short.

The best place to contact me at the moment is at [first-full-name] [dot] [surname] [little-monkey] [dsit.gov.uk]