Calvin Duff

Calvin Duff is a British diplomat currently on sabbatical to focus on AI governance. Most recently he was posted to Hong Kong, for which he trained for two years to achieve professional working proficiency in Cantonese and Standard Written Chinese. He previously served in Zimbabwe during the transition from Mugabe's rule. Before the Foreign Office, he built neural networks for brain-computer interfaces at NASA's Ames Research Facility. He recently completed a seasonal fellowship at GovAI, where he studied how transformative AI is discussed in Chinese online media.