Jay Chooi
I work on preparing society for powerful artificial intelligence, with a focus on forecasting physical automation and understanding how society can flourish if human labor loses economic leverage.
I am a co-founder of Robocurve, a YC-backed Public Benefit Corporation that measures and reports frontier robotics progress to the public. Previously, I was a Research Fellow at MATS, where I worked with Professor Shi Feng on technical AI safety research.
In 2026, I graduated from Harvard with a Bachelor's in Computer Science and Mathematics, with a concurrent Master's in Statistics. I was fortunate to be advised by Professor Ariel Procaccia. My thesis, Computational Perspectives on Democracy in the Age of AI, was awarded Highest Honors.
In 2025, I was elected a Rhodes Scholar. In 2024, I correctly forecast the U.S. Presidential Election results in all 50 states. In 2021, I won a gold medal at the International Olympiad in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
I grew up in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, and am grateful to my government school teachers at SMK Sultan Ismail.
