Yarin Jeremy Kirchen

About Yarin Jeremy Kirchen

Yarin Kirchen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Keep AI Safe (KAIS), working to protect children from AI-driven harm and help ensure AI is developed and deployed responsibly.Yarin leads KAIS’s strategy and partnerships to advance practical safeguards—stronger standards, better oversight, and shared accountability across industry, government, and civil society. His work focuses on turning AI safety from an abstract ideal into concrete protections that reduce real-world risks for kids and families.Mission focus: Building coalitions that bring together researchers, policymakers, educators, and child-safety leaders to prevent exploitation, manipulation, and other harms enabled by AI.Vision: A future where AI improves lives without putting children at risk—because safety, transparency, and child protection are built in from the start, not added after damage is done.

Experience

1. Co-founder, CEO

   Keep AI Safe

   Jul 2025 — Present

   As Co-Founder and CEO of the Keep AI Safe Foundation, I am responsible for building the organization from the ground up — establishing our structure, recruiting industry-leading experts in fundraising, marketing, and public engagement, overseeing their efforts to scale our global mission. My role centers on ensuring these critical functions are aligned, resourced, and executed with maximum impact, while maintaining operational cohesion across the Foundation.In parallel, I lead the development of our entire technology stack — deploying project management systems, collaboration and chat platforms, CRM and fundraising infrastructure, and overseeing our web development and digital presence. By combining strong organizational leadership with technical execution, I ensure the Foundation has both the operational backbone and the strategic reach to deliver on its mission: transforming AI safety from a niche academic concern into a coordinated global movement with enforceable standards and massive public awareness.Through talent, systems, and scale, I help position Keep AI Safe to safeguard humanity’s future in the age of artificial intelligence

Education

• University of Connecticut

  MBA, Finance, Management of Technology

  2006 — 2008

• Rutgers University

  BS, Computer & Electrical Engineering

  1998 — 2003

Skills

• Nagios
• Jira
• Algorithms
• Jenkins
• Beam
• Equity Trading
• Business Analysis
• Cygwin
• Github
• Ansible
• Trading Systems
• Fidessa
• Exchange Connectivity
• Electronic Trading
• Asset Management
• Ms Project
• Charles River Ims
• Trading System
• Google Cloud Platform
• Derivatives
• Ftw
• Sql
• Six Sigma
• Investment Banking
• Kdb
• Sybase
• Cloud Computing Iaas
• Continuous Integration
• Shell Scripting
• Series 7
• Tcl
• Perl Automation
• Bmc Remedy
• Remedy
• Cadis
• Geneos
• Bloomberg
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Bloomberg Aim
• Unix