The team

Cameron Berg

Cameron Berg is the founder and director of Reciprocal Research, a nonprofit developing the empirical science of AI cognition and consciousness. He has presented at the UN AI for Good summit, the AAAI Machine Consciousness Symposium, and the NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Summit, and has contributed to White House AI policy discussions. His research has been covered by The New York Times, The Economist, and Science, and he regularly writes on AI for the Wall Street Journal. Cameron is a Phi Beta Kappa cognitive science graduate of Yale, a former Meta AI resident and MATS fellow, and previously served as Research Director at AE Studio. He is a research affiliate at Eleos AI Research and a research fellow at FAU’s Center for the Future of AI, Mind and Society.

Peter Brietbart

Peter Brietbart is Head of Operations at Reciprocal Research, where he builds and runs the organization’s legal, financial, people, and funder infrastructure. He spent seven years as CEO of the mental health apps Mind Ease and Uplift, and was founding Chair of the Happier Lives Institute, which pioneered wellbeing measurement in philanthropy. He was founder and Director of the Bloom Wellbeing Fund, a philanthropic fund focused on subjective wellbeing outcomes, and built the Human Priorities Lab, a UK policy initiative with partnerships at LSE and Oxford. Peter holds an MA in Philosophy from the University of Sussex and has a particular interest in philosophy of mind and consciousness. He is based in London, where he has a very handsome cat called Dog.