Hi, I’m Jemal Young. I’m interested in the safe development of frontier AI. You can reach me at jemalyoung@gmail.com.

Here you’ll find links to things I’ve written and information about my background as it relates to AI safety.

Policy and governance
Response to OSTP/NITRD RFI on the Development of a 2025 National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research and Development (R&D) Strategic Plan (May 2025)
Aspirational Framework for Continuous Risk Monitoring of Frontier AI Systems (April 2025)
Response to OSTP/NSF RFI on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan (March 2025)
Can efficiency-adjustable reporting thresholds close a loophole in Biden’s executive order on AI? (June 2024)
Risk analysis
Safe Search is off: root causes of AI catastrophic risks (January 2025)
Miscellaneous
“Unintentional AI safety research”: Why not systematically mine AI technical research for safety purposes? (March 2023)

Upskilling
Deep Reinforcement Learning Course (Hugging Face) – 2025
Robustness for Neural Networks: ISO/IEC 24029-1:2021 (British Standards Institute) – 2024
Shaping Trust in AI: Understanding ISO/IEC FDIS 42001 (British Standards Institute) – 2023
AI Safety Fundamentals, Technical Track (BlueDot Impact) – 2022

Professional background
Regulatory affairs for AI companies in the medical device industry (Viz.ai, Heartflow)