Sustainability in AI Safety Careers: A conversation with RAISEimpact
Summary
AI safety is a field where the work is genuinely urgent, the timelines feel short, and many people believe what they do matters on a civilisational scale.
You might find yourself asking, "How do I sustain myself when I actually believe the stakes are enormous and the timeline is short?"
(You're not alone!)
In this session, Adam Tury and Teo Embers (Co-Leads, RAISEimpact) join Jessica Pu Wang (Founder & Executive Director, Safe AI Germany) for a conversation on career sustainability in AI safety. Adam and Teo have coached researchers, founders, and operations leads across the AI safety ecosystem; Jessica is running a national AI safety organisation while trying to figure this out in real time. The session will be part live coaching, part audience Q&A (via Slido).
Speaker bios
🎤 Adam Tury is Co-Lead of RAISEimpact. With 350+ coaching sessions delivered to more than 50 professionals, Adam has supported founders, executive directors, strategy leads, program managers, researchers, engineers, and team leaders across sectors. Drawing on 11+ years of experience leading software development teams at global tech firms including Amazon and Bloomberg, Adam now helps mission-driven professionals grow their leadership and people-management skills, build healthy and resilient team cultures, and unlock high performance at scale. He brings particular expertise in supporting individuals working on complex technical and governance challenges in artificial intelligence.
🎤 Teo Embers, ex-physicist, now leadership coach and Co-Lead of RAISEimpact. He'll share the years-long journey back to full health, and what it taught him about sustaining yourself when the stakes feel enormous. He’s spent over a decade training thousands of people across the globe, coaching leaders and founders (incl. Google, Revolut, Activate Global, UK Government), was on the board of the International Coaching Federation, and is trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy. He’s also built Greater Human, the most rigorous IFS-based AI app available, focused on accelerating psychological development.
🎤 Jessica Pu Wang is the Founder and Executive Director of SAIGE, where she builds the national capacity for AI safety. She is currently writing this in 3rd-person tone. She has contributed to frontier AI evaluation benchmarks, including co-organising and creating research-level math problems for Epoch AI’s FrontierMath and ranking as a top 10 global contributor to Humanity's Last Exam. She has also served as a fund reviewer for Renaissance Philanthropy's $32M AI for Math Fund. She has been working on SAIGE roughly 9-9 six days a week for months since January 2026, and was the only FTE in this organisation until July 2026. After many conversations with other AI safety full-time staff, one common topic is 'how to make sure that our careers are sustainable'. She decided to invite RAISEimpact to this conversation.
Who should attend?
Designed for people in AI safety who are working hard on things that matter and want to keep doing so for a long time, and people who are seriously considering transitioning into a career path to work on pressing issues.