Peter Slattery

Researcher at MIT FutureTech

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About me

I use research, communication and entrepreneurship to work on pressing societal problems.

At the moment, I am particularly interested in understanding how to safely develop and deploy AI for maximum societal benefit and working on the AI Risk Repository.

I have curated a few of my projects below. See my LinkedIn for a more complete list and my Google Scholar for my papers and citations.

I try to help other people working on important issues where I can. Feel free to reach out if you would like my help, but please note that I am generally maxed out, and often can't make much, if any, time for new projects.

Research

My research interests




A founding member of READI Research which created project including What works to increase charitable donations? A meta-review with meta-meta-analysis, Interventions that Influence Animal-Product Consumption: A Meta-Review and Survey of COVID-19 Responses to Understand Behaviour (SCRUB) and derivative papers (e.g., Bradshaw et al., 2021)

My Work

Featured projects

entrepreneurship
Ready Research

Ready Research provides research, training, and communication services to help address the world's most pressing problems.

Research
The AI Risk Repository

A comprehensive living database of over 700 AI risks categorized by their cause and risk domain.

Research
The SCRUB project

The SCRUB project provided policymakers with actionable insights into public attitudes and behaviours during COVID-19 pandemic.

Entrepreneurship
Collaboreat

A service to connect people together to organise shared meals, which pivoted into a meal service aggregator (CompareMeals).

Communication
Stand Against Corona

A field experiment to test different pro-social messaging strategies and promote action before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Research
Scale-up toolkit

An evidence-informed toolkit to help behavioural insights researchers and practitioners to start with scale-up in mind.

Hobbies

Hammocks and baths

Outside work, I read, surf, swim and hike, relax in baths and hammocks (though never at the same time), and explore my (too) many interests. I recommend reading Behave by Robert Sapolsky and If This Is a Man/The Truce by Primo Levi, if you are looking for book recommendations.

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