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.

My current priority is to drastically increase the number of researchers & experts designing national economic preparedness plans to navigate transformative AI scenarios. 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 created web3.university, a learning platform with over 200k students.

I was also previously a rapid prototyping researcher at Google's Interaction Lab, where I led software explorations for a next-gen Google Glass. At Google, I independently designed and built the first "Babelfish" real-time translation feature, launched in 2017 on the Pixel Buds. 

The disruptive impact of AI on labor could be a major theme of the upcoming 2028 presidential election. What should the next president do to prepare the country for AI's impact on the economy - or to respond in the case of major disruption? Right now, no credible answer to this question exists - the number of forward-thinking AI economic preparedness plans produced for any country remains at zero.

Deric is primarily interested in developing AI economic preparedness plans based on a range of economic scenarios to help countries prepare for significant economic disruption.

I'm interested in fellows with: 

• Professional experience in policy research for labor markets, public finance, competition policy, or international economic policy

• Graduate degree in economics, public policy, law, or equivalent professional experience

• A track record of policy-relevant research or analysis at institutions such as government agencies, international organizations, think tanks, or universities.

• Deep country-specific expertise in economic policy.