Tang Haochen is a penultimate year Philosophy and Economics student at University College London, UK.

Previous (24-25) Vice President of UCL Philosophy Society

Safe AI London

Mar 2025 - Current · 3 mos

I am currently working as an AI Researcher at Safe AI London, where I am focusing on technical approaches to reducing AI risks within the AI Alignment Track.

Apart Research

Apr 2025 - May 2025 · 2 mos

My experience also includes leadership as the Research Lead for the Universe 0 Team at Apart Research. In this capacity, I steered our research project to the Grand Finalé (Top 4 finalists) of the AGI & Economics Research Sprint. Our study specifically examined the feasibility of introducing a Universal High Income (UHI) to secure economic stability and promote equitable outcomes in an age of advanced automation. This involved developing and evaluating a comprehensive fiscal policy package to fund the UHI and mitigate the economic impact of an AI-driven economy.

Arcadia Impact

Oct 2024 - Jan 2025 · 4 mos

As a Researcher at Arcadia Impact, I contributed to a comprehensive analysis of the different board governance structures at frontier AGI labs, including Anthropic, DeepMind, Meta, OpenAI, and xAI, as part of Arcadia Impact's Impact Research Groups (IRG). This research was subsequently awarded second place overall across multiple research streams.

CORE Econ

Mar 2024 - Aug 2024 · 6 mos

I worked as the research assistant in Prof. Wendy Carlin's team to assist in the production of both the micro and macro volumes of this textbook series, The Economy 2.0.

Investment is my interest

  • Having achieved a BPhO Global Silver Medal during my IGCSEs with an initial aim to study physics, I later found the maths, particularly mechanics and further mechanics, too demanding, realising a strong mathematical foundation is crucial for the field. Consequently, I transitioned to economics, where I found the subject quite intriguing and went on to achieve an NEC National Silver Award and an IEO National Bronze Award during my AS Levels.

  • In April 2024, upon applying for the Bridgewater Associates internship programme, I received an email from Bridgewater introducing their collaboration with Metaculus on a forecasting competition, which prompted me to register. In this inaugural Bridgewater Forecasting Contest, I ranked in the top 12 percent and was awarded a $123 prize for excellent performance across both the Open and Undergraduate Leaderboards. This amount was then donated to the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI), in coordination with Metaculus' COO, to support their research in AI governance. Subsequently, in the Bridgewater Forecasting Contest (Global), I achieved a top 8 percent ranking among more than 3,000 participants from around the world.

  • It all begins with an idea.

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Many successful talents pretend that they set their minds to what they want to do for a career at a very early age, and then keep working hard in that direction to learn and gain experience. However, they either just lie to themselves that they are into that direction; or they just follow the crowd. As Carl Yung said, ‘If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.'

To be honest, I don't know where my future is heading. I used to be certain; now I'm not. But this uncertainty is good, because there's a nice alias for this situation called infinite possibilities.