FutureSearch - Company Team Page
webFutureSearch is an AI-powered forecasting company founded largely by former Metaculus team members, focused on improving prediction and forecasting capabilities, which has indirect relevance to AI safety through better anticipation of AI risks and outcomes.
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FutureSearch is a forecasting-focused AI company co-founded by former Metaculus leadership, including ex-CTO Dan Schwarz and former AI team lead Lawrence Phillips. The team combines expertise in machine learning, statistics, and forecasting to build AI-driven prediction tools. Several team members have backgrounds in AI safety research and effective altruism-aligned organizations.
Key Points
- •Founded by former Metaculus leadership including CTO and AI team lead, bringing deep forecasting platform expertise.
- •Team includes researchers with backgrounds in infectious disease forecasting, ML, physics, and AI safety.
- •One team member (Christoph Sträter) has explicit AI safety research background.
- •Strong ties to EA-aligned organizations and prediction market development (including Google's internal prediction market).
- •Combines academic rigor (PhDs from MIT, LSE, Warwick, Cambridge) with industry ML and forecasting experience.
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Dan Schwarz CO-FOUNDER & CEO BS Symbolic Systems, Stanford University Prior to founding FUTURESEARCH, Dan served as CTO at Metaculus, the pre-eminent public forecasting platform. Dan was a Senior Software Engineer at Google and Waymo, and created Google's currently running internal prediction market. Lawrence Phillips CO-FOUNDER & CTO PhD Atomic/Molecular Physics, Heriot Watt University | MSc Imperial College London Prior to founding FUTURESEARCH, Lawrence led the AI team at Metaculus. Lawrence has held ML engineer and ML scientist positions at Cambridge Consultants, GTN, Jawbone Health, and GSK. Peter Mühlbacher FOUNDING RESEARCH SCIENTIST PhD Mathematics, University of Warwick Prior to FUTURESEARCH, Peter was a Research Scientist at Metaculus and a Risk Analyst at UniCredit Bank Austria. Daniel Hnyk VP, ENGINEERING MSc Math and CS, Czech Technical University Prior to FUTURESEARCH, Daniel was Director of Engineering at GWI and later Metaculus, and different roles for various EA-aligned NGOs. Nikos Bosse RESEARCH ENGINEER PhD Statistics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, | MD, University of Göttingen Prior to FUTURESEARCH, Nikos developed Research Strategy at Metaculus while earning his MD and his PhD on infectious disease forecasting and forecast evaluation. Jack Wildman SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER PhD Materials Physics, Heriot-Watt University Prior to FUTURESEARCH, Jack was a Senior Software Engineer at Metaculus, and Development Team Lead at Ito World. McKenna Meyer CHIEF OF STAFF BA, University of Michigan Prior to FUTURESEARCH, McKenna worked on talent acquisition strategy at Google and led all program management for Google's internal prediction market run by the Behavioral Economics team. Tom Liptay DIRECTOR OF FORECASTING PhD Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, MIT Prior to FUTURESEARCH, Tom served as Director of Forecasting at Metaculus, CFO of Good Judgment Inc, founded an investment fund, and is a GJP Superforecaster. Robert Gambee RESEARCH ENGINEER BSc Engineering, Harvey Mudd College Prior to FUTURESEARCH, Robert was a Senior Systems Integration Engineer at Formlabs. Callum McMahon RESEARCH SCIENTIST MSc Machine Learning, UCL Prior to FUTURESEARCH, Callum was an ML Engineer at GSK. Rafael Poyiadzi RESEARCH SCIENTIST PhD Machine Learning, University of Bristol Prior to FUTURESEARCH, Rafael was a Senior AIML Engineer at GSK. Christoph Sträter RESEARCH SCIENTIST PhD Theoretical Physics, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, | MASt, University of Cambridge Prior to FUTURESEARCH, Christoph was CTO and cofounder at computer vision startup ModelMe and data scientist at BASF. He did research in AI Safety and in quantum simulations with optical lattices. Work with us at futu re search Open Roles General Application Don't see a perfect fit but think you'd be a great addition to our team? We'd love to hear from you. Apply Now
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