Daniel O'Connell

Daniel O'Connell is the CTO and co-founder of Equistamp, a Public Benefit Corporation that provides research operations for AI safety organizations. Equistamp grew out of Rob Miles' AI safety Discord community and was established in late 2023. O'Connell, a UK citizen, has contributed to AI safety evaluation infrastructure for organizations including METR, the UK AI Security Institute, and Redwood Research. He co-authored the HCAST (Human-Calibrated Autonomy Software Tasks) benchmark paper, which provides a set of 189 machine learning engineering, cybersecurity, software engineering, and general reasoning tasks for evaluating AI autonomy. His work focuses on evaluation implementation, task quality assurance, and baselining for frontier AI models.

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