Joshua Tan

Building public AI

United States

About

See www.joshuatan.com/research.

Experience

  • Interim CTO at Current AI
    May 2026 - Present · 3 mos

  • Fellow at Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
    Mar 2026 - Present · 5 mos

  • Innovation Lead, Stanford OpenLab at Stanford University
    Mar 2026 - Present · 5 mos

    I lead Stanford AO, an incubator / lab for autonomous organizations at Stanford OpenLab.

  • - at Public AI
    Jun 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

    Public AI is AI as public infrastructure—like parks, highways, water, or electricity. It's both an idea and a movement. I lead product and strategy within the movement.

  • Co-Founder, Research Director at Metagov
    Aug 2019 - Present · 7 yrs

    I founded and lead research at Metagov, a laboratory for engineering institutions. Among other things, we've built a political party, a leading AI safety lab, and two standards bodies (for calm tech and DAOs).