Demetrius A. Floudas
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Demetrius A. Floudas is an international lawyer specialising in tech and an AI Policy expert. He is Visiting Scholar in Law at Downing College, Cambridge and Affiliate Professor at IKBFU, where he lectures on Artificial Intelligence Regulation. Moreover, he is a Fellow of the Hellenic Institute of International & Foreign Law and a practicing lawyer. He has worked for many years as a Policy Adviser to cabinet-level decision-makers for several governments (previously as Regulatory Policy Lead at the British Foreign Office) and consulted numerous international think-tanks and organisations. His views have frequently appeared in the media worldwide (BBC TV & Radio, Voice of America, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Washington Post, Vedomosti, Politico and others).
Demetrius Floudas is regularly involved in AI Governance drafting committees, e.g. the EU AI Office’s Code of Practice for General-Purpose AI, UNESCO Guidelines for Use of AI in Courts & Tribunals, the OECD risk thresholds for advanced AI, and others. He has for some time advocated for a UN-backed ‘AI Control & Non-Proliferation International Treaty’.
Demetrius remains actively engaged in civilisational risk analysis & mitigation policy: he is Senior Adviser to the Cambridge Existential Risk Initiative and Editor in the ‘Nuclear War’ and ‘AI & Law’ sections of the PhilPapers academic repository. He is on the Review Board of ‘AI Policy Bulletin’ and is particularly interested in policies concerning catastrophic AI hazards, digital human emulation (lovebots, thanabots, etc.) and the intersection of WMD & AI.
