Contributors to the Strategic Memo

The Strategic Memo of the Deal of the Century v2.6 has been published on December 30th, 2025, as the result of over 12 months of the collective effort of over hundreds of hours of contributions by over 19 experts and 5 acknowledged experts, with exceptional expertise in AI safety, cybersecurity, global governance and philosophy and more, including:

  • (US) Felix De Simone. Organizing Director of PauseAI USA. Main contributor. Was also the co-author of Version 1.

  • (Israel) David Manheim, Founder and Head of the Association for Long-Term Existence and Resilience. Advisor of CBPAI. 

  • (Germany) Paul Nemitz. Former Principal Advisor and Director at the European Commission (DG Justice); lead Director for the GDPR reform. Professor of Law at the College of Europe.

  • (Netherlands) Joep Meindertsma. Founder and former CEO of Pause AI Global. Secretariat Member of CBPAI.  

  • (Ireland) Marjia Siddik. Research at AI Safety Camp. Cofounder at Agentic. Editor at CBAPI. Author of “Toward ASI Stability: A Treaty Framework for US–China Cooperation on Artificial Superintelligence”

  • (US) Angsar Koene, Global AI Ethics and Regulatory Leader at Ernst Young. Advisor of TCA.

  • (US) Mark Barwinski. Former Group Head of Cybersecurity Operations at Swiss bank UBS. Formerly a senior official at the TAO unit of theUS National Security Agency. Advisor of CBPAI.

  • (US) Joshua Turner. Researcher at the AI Futures Project. Former IAPS Fellow and former Project Assistant at the Brookings Institution Center for Technology Innovation. BA in Computer Science and Mathematics from Grinnell College.

  • (US) Romeo Dean. Co-author of the AI 2027 scenario. Senior Researcher at AI Futures Project. Former researcher at the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy. Harvard MA.

  • (Bulgaria) Mariana Todorova. Member of the High-Level Expert AGI Panel for the Council of Presidents of the UN General Assembly. Former Member of Parliament; former advisor to the President of Bulgaria. Member of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Ethics of AI and of the ENISA Foresight Group.

  • (US) Jerome Glenn. Chairman of the High-Level Expert AGI Panel for the Council of Presidents of the UN General Assembly. Co-founder and CEO of The Millennium Project. Former Executive Director of the American Council for the United Nations University.

  • (Norway) Tolga Bilge.  Policy Researcher at ControlAI; Founder of AItreaty.org. Secretariat Member of CBPAI.

  • (Italy) Daniele Palombi. AI governance systems expert. Senior Researcher at the Bay Area’s Center for AI Risk Management & Alignment (CARMA) and the CyberCat Institute .  2025 Foresight Fellow.

  • (UK/Russia) Boris Taratine. Former Chief Cyber Security Architect at Lloyds Banking Group, and Principal Security Architect at VISA Europe. Advisor of TCA.

  • (US) Wendell Wallach. Emeritus Chair of Technology and Ethics Research  Group at Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics,  and Carnegie Fellow. Former Secretariat Member of CBPAI.  

  • (Italy) Erica Bassani. Book author, philosopher andBuddhist meditation teacher. Contributed 70+ hours of deep philosophical analysis of Trump's AI influencers. Team member at CBPAI.

  • (US) Richard Falk, Emeritus Professor at Princeton University. Celebrated expert in global democratic governance. Longtime advisor of the TCA.

  • (US) Mehmet Sencan. Hardware Research Lead at Atlas Consulting. Hardware security and Guaranteed Safe AI Expert.

  • (China) Xiaohu Zhu. Founder at Center for Safe AGI; AI Existential Safety  Researcher at Future of Life. Secretariat Member of CBPAI.

  • (Switzerland) Jan Camenisch. Chief Technology Officer at DFINITY. Holders of over 150 patents in cybersecurity and digital trust. Advisor to the TCA.  

  • (The Gambia) Amb. Muhammadou Kah. Chair of the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development; Ambassador of The Gambia to Switzerland and the UN in Geneva.  Advisor of the TCA. 

  • (Italy/Argentina) Roberto Savio. Director of External Relations at the European Center for Peace and  Development and of the University of Peace of the United Nations

  • (Brazil) Edson Prestes. Head of the Robotics  Research Group, University of Rio Grande do Sul.

  • (Italy) Yernur Kairly. Research Associate at the Consortium for AI and  Existential Risks (AiXist).  

  • (Brazil) Flavio S. Correa da Silva.  Former Director of the Research Center on Open Source Software at the University of São Paulo.

  • (Nigeria) Victoria Mbachu. Junior Research Assistant.

Acknowledged experts of version 1 include:

  • (UK) David Dalrymple. Director of UK ARIA Safeguarded AI Program; Lead Author of the Towards Guaranteed Safe AI paper. Former CBPAI Working Group Member. 

  • (US) Gary Marcus is a cognitive science and AI expert and professor emeritus of psychology and neural science at New York University.

  • (Germany) Lukas Pöhler, Head of AI Solutions Engineering at Aleph Alpha. Member of the Board Of Advisors of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in  International Affairs.

  • (UK)  David Wood, Chair of the London Futurists and Advisor of TCA and CBPAI.

  • (US) Holly Elmore, Executive  Director of PauseAI US.

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