About
Emily drives AI policy research and advocacy at Good Ancestors. Her recent work has focused on AI-enabled biological risk, compute governance, and AI crisis management. Before Good Ancestors, Emily worked on MIT's AI Risk Repository — a comprehensive taxonomy of over 1,700 AI risks. She previously worked as a behavioural science researcher and consultant.
Speaking at AI Safety Forum 2026
Building AI Data Centres: What's in it for Australia and for AI safety?
Australia is being discussed as a place to build AI data centres — the infrastructure that trains and runs frontier AI. This talk explores what Australia could gain from hosting AI infrastructure, how it could contribute to the broader goal of AI going well, and some of the difficult questions along the way.
AI and Biological risk: What the Evidence Says and What We Should Do
AI systems can now troubleshoot virology experiments better than human experts, design novel genomes, and lower barriers that have historically kept dangerous capabilities out of reach. This panel will examine what the latest evidence tells us about AI-enabled biological risk, who the most concerning threat actors are, and what Australia and the international community can do about it — from DNA synthesis screening to biosurveillance to broader national security preparedness.