Hello
I’m Nicholas Kruus, an Ellison Scholar at the University of Oxford.
I'm currently:
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Working at the Brookings Institution
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Researching AI policy for a book on national and international security
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Automating internal comms systems with AI
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Scoping startups and orgs in automated intelligence, AI verification, and uplift consulting
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Exploring AI policy research grants to traditional think tanks
I’ve primarily:
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Researched AI policy and global priorities, incl. publications at PNAS and ICLR (see Papers)
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Reviewed papers for NeurIPS
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Advised World Bank/UN policy forecasts for 47 countries with the IMF
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Collaborated with Oxford’s Global Priorities Institute
On the side, I’ve helped research and develop:
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A policy brief whose recommendation was implemented by the US and UK governments
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An economics paper on rationality published in the Journal of Development Economics
My roles include:
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Expert Collaborator at the MIT AI Risk Initiative
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Research Fellow at the Institute for Replication
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General Committee Member at the Oxford AI Safety Initiative
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Senior Committee Member at the Oxford AI Futures Collective
My work and I have been featured and published by (non-exhaustive list):
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Nature News (May 2026)
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Import AI by Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark (Mar 2026)
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Bloomberg (Jul 2026)
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CBS (Jan 2025)
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MIT:
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Ideas Made to Matter (Jul 2026)
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MIT Sloan Press (Jun 2026)
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MIT FutureTech, YouTube (Jun 2026)
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Y Combinator Startup School (Jul 2026)
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Semafor (Jul 2026)
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Scale Labs (Feb 2026)
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SBS World News, Korea (Jul 2026)
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Nikkei Asia, Japan (Jul 2026)
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Institute for Law and AI (Dec 2025)
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Marginal Revolution by Tyler Cowen (Sep 2024)
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The Neuron (Jun 2026)
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European Economic Association Congress 2025 (Aug 2025)
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UnHerd (Jul 2025)
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St Catherine’s College (University of Oxford) News (Mar 2025)
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EIT News (Mar 2025)