Tim Bakker
Tim Bakker

Tim Bakker

Senior ML Researcher at Qualcomm AI

My current research interests focus on AI safety, in particular CoT and latent space monitoring. I completed my PhD in machine learning at the University of Amsterdam, supervised by Max Welling and Herke van Hoof.

I am concerned about the potentially transformative risks associated with advanced AI and have spoken at events including the Dutch National AI Debate, Pakhuis de Zwijger, the Dutch Ministry of Defence, and University of Amsterdam. I have also written for the NRC newspaper on the approaching AI revolution.

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E-Valuating Classifier Two-Sample Tests

Teodora Pandeva, Tim Bakker, Christian A. Naesseth, Patrick Forre

TMLR, 2024. ICLR 2025 J2C Track

Experimental design for MRI by greedy policy search

Tim Bakker, Herke van Hoof, Max Welling

NeurIPS, 2020. Spotlight

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Nederland is niet voorbereid op de risico's van de rap naderende AI-revolutie

Nederland is niet voorbereid op de risico's van de rap naderende AI-revolutie

NRC op-ed

February 7, 2025

Article in the national Dutch newspaper NRC, on current AI developments and the importance of global action for mitigating risks to the economy, risks of arms races, and risks of loss-of-control, by Otto Barten and Tim Bakker.

Panel on the Existential Risks of AI with prof. Stuart Russell

Panel at Pakhuis de Zwijger · Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam

April 12, 2023

Panel on the existential risks of artificial intelligence, with Stuart Russell, Maxim Februari, Queeny-Aimee Rajkowski, Tim Bakker, and others.