AI safety startup building dev tools used by Fortune 50 companies and leading model developers to measure and improve AI alignment.
Juan Manuel Contreras, Ph.D.
Builder and scholar of intelligent systems.
Co-founder and CEO of Aymara.
Writing and research on AI, cognition, and culture.
About
I spent the last decade working at the intersection of AI, behavior, and product—from founding an AI safety startup to leading a science team at Uber.
Before this, I trained as a cognitive neuroscientist and social psychologist at Harvard and Princeton, studying natural intelligence.
In my spare time, I run marathons, practice yoga, and am starting a band with AI musicians.
I am Bolivian-American and based in Washington, DC.
Featured Project
Writing
Research, essays, and creative work on AI, cognition, and culture.
Automated safety evaluations across 20 large language models: The Aymara LLM Risk & Responsibility Matrix
Framework and tooling for evaluating risk and responsibility of large language models across 10 real-world safety dimensions.