Merrymake - AI and Deep Tech Think Tank

Our philosophy

To benefit all life, then humanity, and then every human with the help of AI.

Unimaginable treasures

Superintelligence presents profound potential. It could eliminate premature deaths, anti-democratic institutions, inequality, and suffering.

Unprecedented risks

The same technology can cause societal disruptions; biological, chemical, radiological, and cyber terrorism; environmental or ecological collapse, and ultimately extinction.

“ Those who have the ability, have the obligation.”

We take seriously, the responsibility that comes with deep technical skills. With ambition, care, and ruggedness we fight to redirect the global trajectory away from the bad outcomes, towards a functional utopia.

Policy areas

Actionable frameworks designed to navigate intelligence expansion.

AI in education

Utilized correctly, even the current narrow AI far surpasses traditional education in personalization. Missing that potential would be catastrophic. Teach for Curiosity, Critical Thinking, and Forming Meaningful Relations. Regardless of the pace and scale of intelligence expansion, these foundational human skills remain equally valuable.

EU AI sovereignty

The EU must participate in the AI race, lest we become a lame duck, like China once was with railways. To secure our standing in the global market, it is critical that the EU fosters a competitive AI startup ecosystem through a horde of low-barrier, tiered-prize tournaments spanning from the national to the EU-wide level.

Privacy & safety in AI

Large Language Models (LLMs) are knowledge weapons, and they should be regulated as such. Control, however, is fundamentally at odds with personal privacy and safe superintelligence. Trying to enslave an intelligence greater than our own is the biggest security threat of all. We must steer towards AIs as friends, through Cooperative Alignment and Non-Zero-Sum Dynamics.

Society & government

Democracy must become much more sensitive and resilient towards subtle manipulation. Trust and proximity will become linked. As AI-powered deepfakes, lobbying, election interference, and misinformation poisons Mímir's wellspring (the internet), people will avert their attention matrices back to the physical world, face-to-face.

How we engage

Translating state-of-the-art scientific research into actionable corporate and public strategy.

Consulting

Executive guidance on integrating AI securely and avoiding infrastructure disruption.

Seminars

High-level briefings for government officials and executives on AI trajectory.

White papers

Commissioned, in-depth, rigorously researched policy and technical publications.

Open source

Code repositories and benchmarking tools released freely to the technical community.

Thought leaders

Experts dedicated to responsible technical and societal advancement.

Christian Clausen

Chief Research Officer

Well-known author and computer scientist specialized in formal verification and software architecture.

Nicolaj Græsholt

Chief Security Officer

Computer scientist specialized in proactive security and software reliability engineering.

Tobias Lauritzen

Chief Gov. Affairs Officer

Economist specialized in strategic projects, macro-strategy, and global markets.

Tamara Hassan

Staff Research Engineer

Software engineer specialized in embedded systems, low-level execution, and infrastructure.