Lennart Heim

Research Fellow

Centre for the Governance of AI

Areas of expertise: Compute governance, Corporate governance, Hardware, Model security

Lennart Heim is a researcher at the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI) in Oxford, focusing on Compute Governance. His research interests include the role of compute in the production of AI, the compute supply chain, forecasting emerging technologies, and the security of AI systems. His time is split into the strategic and technical analysis of the compute governance domain and active policy engagement with GovAI’s policy team. He’s also a member of the OECD.AI Expert Group on AI Compute and Climate, a steering group member at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change’s National Compute Index, and a Strategy Specialist at Epoch, a new organization focused on researching strategic questions around advanced AI. He has a background in Computer Engineering. Previously Lennart worked as a consultant to the OECD and as a researcher at ETH Zürich.

Selected Publications

Heim et. al. (2022). Compute Trends Across Three Eras of Machine Learning. ArXiv preprint.

Heim, L. (2023). Video and Transcript of Presentation on Introduction to Compute Governance. blog.heim.xyz.

OECD. (2023). A blueprint for building national compute capacity for artificial intelligence. OECD.AI.

Anderljung, M., Heim, L., & Shevlane, T. (2022). Compute Funds and Pre-trained Models. Centre for the Governance of AI.

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