Jade Leung (engineer)

Jade Leung is a New Zealand researcher and engineer. Her work focuses on the ethical development of artificial intelligence, particularly on regulation and safety protocols for upcoming generations of artificial general intelligence. She is a former Governance and Policy Advisor to OpenAI, and a former research and Head of Partnerships at the Governance of Artificial Intelligence Program at Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute. Leung leads the Research Unit at the UK AI Safety Institute.

Career
Leung graduated from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) with First Class Honours in Civil Engineering in 2015. She won a Rhodes Scholarship in 2016. She completed her DPhil in International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford in 2019. Her PhD thesis was on "Who will govern artificial intelligence? Learning from the history of strategic politics in emerging technologies".