Jay Chooi

Election Year: 2026

Election Constituency: Malaysia

Scholar Status: Scholar Elect

Rhodes Identifier: Malaysia, 2026

Jay Chooi

Biography

Jay works on preparing society for powerful artificial intelligence through technical research on AI safety. Currently, he is a Research Fellow at MATS, studying how AI models can influence each other while evading human oversight. He is also interested in measuring gradual disempowerment and extreme power concentration due to AI. Jay is graduating from Harvard in May 2026 with a Bachelor's in Computer Science and Mathematics, and a Master's in Statistics. Read more about his motivations here and learn more about his work here.