Deric Cheng

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I'm currently serving as the Director of Research for the Windfall Trust, a non-profit focused on ensuring that the economic benefits of advanced AI are shared by everyone. I also lead the AGI Social Contract, a consortium of experts proposing strategies to guide the design of a new social contract through the upcoming societal transition.In the next few years, every country in the world will need to have a plan on how to respond to the economic disruption caused by AI. My priority is to drastically increase the number of researchers & experts designing these national economic preparedness plans. My primary areas of focus include tax policy, welfare resilience, market design, and labor market policies. I was formerly the AI Governance Lead for Convergence Analysis. At Convergence, I hosted a conference on AI economic impacts and guided a number of fellowships conducting economic policy research. Before my focus on AI economics, I also conducted research on foundational AI governance policies (e.g. chip registries & model registries) & soft nationalization.Previously, I was the fifth software engineer at Alchemy, an Ethereum infra startup now valued at $10.2 billion. At Alchemy, I c

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