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Blaine William Rogers
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03 · Background
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Blaine William Rogers is the founder and organiser of AI Safety 東京 (AI Safety Tokyo), the Shibuya-headquartered Tokyo reading-group and conference community he started from scratch in January 2023, and Research Communications Officer at the Tokyo-based AGI company Noeon Research. He holds an MEng in Joint Mathematics and Computer Science from Imperial College London (2014–2018), where he won the Donald Davies Prize for the best JMC master's thesis of 2018 for "pi-Actor: A pi-calculus abstraction for Erlang"; prior industry roles include Rapyuta Robotics and Five AI. He speaks Japanese at JLPT N2 level, which has been central to his effectiveness in building a domestic community in Tokyo.
Rogers began AI Safety Tokyo having found no other person in Japan inclined to work on AI safety after his own light research, and funded the group's first year out of pocket (visa constraints at the time prevented external grants). His stated ambition was "building a safety community in Tokyo from zero" with the ultimate aim of making Tokyo an AI-safety hub for Asia — identifying interested talent in Japan and routing it into international safety research. In practice, AI Safety Tokyo's central activity is its monthly benkyoukai (勉強会) reading-group-and-seminar, pitched at an interested technical layperson, and alongside that Rogers has built the annual Technical AI Safety Conference (TAIS) as the group's international-facing research-conference surface — TAIS 2024 drew 105 in-person attendees and approximately 400 unique livestream viewers; TAIS 2025 followed in April 2025 at Tokyo Midtown Tower. The group's partnerships include the AI Alignment Network and Effective Altruism Japan.
Beyond the reading group and conference, Rogers serves as Director of AI Safety at the AI Industry Foundation, and co-hosts the Mindful Machines podcast with Van Nguyen — a show covering technical AI safety research. In March 2023 he gave a TEDxOtemachi talk — "Is Chat-GPT trustworthy?" — introducing LLM limitations to a general audience, and in August 2024 he spoke at the international student session of ICRES 2024 at Keio University on AI governance in Japan, covering Japan's soft-law preference, the Hiroshima AI Process, and the Basic Law for Promotion of Responsible AI.
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aisafety.tokyo
Checked 2026-06-09AI Safety 東京 About page — primary source listing Blaine William Rogers as founder and organiser, affiliated with Noeon Research as Research Communications Officer; also confirms partnerships with AI Alignment Network and Effective Altruism Japan
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manifund.org
Checked 2026-06-09Blaine William Rogers's Manifund profile — identifies him as Research Communications Officer at Noeon Research and the founder-organiser of AI Safety 東京; links to the "Year one of AI Safety Tokyo" impact-certificate project
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manifund.org
Checked 2026-06-09Manifund impact-certificate "Year one of AI Safety Tokyo" — records Rogers as founder, confirms he funded year one out of pocket due to visa constraints (now resolved), and documents year-one outcomes including conversion of at least 4 mid-career academics and professionals into highly engaged advocates; also notes Rogers began with no other Japan-based AI-safety organiser known to him after light research
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linkedin.com
Checked 2026-06-09LinkedIn profile — confirms Research Communications Officer title at Noeon Research; prior roles at Rapyuta Robotics and Five AI; MEng in Joint Mathematics and Computer Science from Imperial College London (2014–2018); Donald Davies Prize winner for best JMC master's thesis of 2018 ("pi-Actor: A pi-calculus abstraction for Erlang")
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youtube.com
Checked 2026-06-09YouTube recording of TEDxOtemachi talk — "Is Chat-GPT trustworthy?" delivered by Rogers (March 2023), framing large language models and their trustworthiness for a general public audience; confirmed on the AI Safety 東京 events page as TEDxOtemachi on 11 March 2023
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aialignmenttalkfromjapan.substack.com
Checked 2026-06-09AI Alignment Talk from Japan No.12 — event report on ICRES 2024 student session at Keio University (August 2024); names Rogers as guest speaker on "AI Governance in Japan", covering Japan's soft-law preference, the Hiroshima AI Process, self-regulation frameworks, and the Basic Law for Promotion of Responsible AI; also confirms his title as Chair of AI Safety Tokyo and Communication Officer at Noeon Research
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tais2024.cc
Checked 2026-06-09TAIS 2024 press page — identifies Rogers as Director of AI Safety at the AI Industry Foundation and as organiser of TAIS 2024; corroborates Andrei Krutikov (Noeon Research CEO) as co-organising partner
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forum.effectivealtruism.org
Checked 2026-06-09EA Forum groups listing for "AI Safety Tokyo Benkyoka" — names Blaine (blaine@aisafety.tokyo) as the listed organiser; confirms Tokyo location and describes the monthly format as "university seminars for the intro-to-safety course that your university doesn't offer yet"
Source: entities/persons/person-blaine-rogers.md — movement-graph pin 5d136ad.