Toni Lorente
Toni is Director of European AI Governance, where he advances policy and institutional mechanisms for the safe development and deployment of frontier AI. He directs TFS’s contributions on the EU AI Act’s General-Purpose AI provisions and European frontier AI governance, translating technical research into concrete recommendations for European and international policymakers.
Toni is a member of the OECD’s Expert Group on AI Risk & Accountability and contributes to the OECD.AI Network of Experts (ONE AI). He also sits on the Ethics Review Committee at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute. Before joining TFS, he was a visiting scholar at the Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI) at UC Berkeley and led research on algorithmic auditing and governance at Eticas Consulting in Barcelona.
He holds a PhD in Digital Humanities from King’s College London, with a dissertation titled The Politics of Value Alignment in AI (2025). He also holds an MSc in Philosophy of Science from the London School of Economics, an MA in Political Philosophy from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and a BSc in Aerospace Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. His peer-reviewed research examines the political and normative dimensions of AI alignment and the governance of general-purpose AI.
Toni Lorente
Barcelona
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