Konstantin Sietzy

Konstantin leads Research Unit 1 at the UK AI Security Institute (AISI), which evaluates frontier AI models and develops mitigations for their societal impacts. Previously he built SovAI, the UK government's £500m VC fund investing to preserve sovereignty in Transformative AI scenarios, and lead Talent and Operations for AISI. Before AISI, he briefly worked with the EU AI Office to help set up their safety unit, and previously spent just under a decade at McKinsey working on health security and pandemic preparedness. Konstantin serves on the Board of several non-profits in the AI security and global health space.