Lily Stelling
stel·ling
/ˈstɛlɪŋ/
n., Dutch.
1. theorem; proposition.
2. a position taken.
3. scaffolding.
My name is Lily. I currently work in the AI Safety Unit at the European AI Office, as a Technical Officer for enforcing the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (Safety and Security Chapter). In short, I figure out what companies should be doing. I’m fortunate to be a Rhodes Scholar, where I’ll pursue a DPhil as an affiliate with the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative.
I believe that if AI automates much of society’s scientific and technological research, it could be wild, for better or worse.
Before the AI Office, I lived in New Zealand and Australia, where I studied mathematics, economics and philosophy as a Kahotea Scholar and graduated as the top Philosophy student.
Education
DPhil in Engineering Science
2026–
University of Oxford · Rhodes Scholar · Technical AI Governance Studentship, Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative
BSc(Hons) in Mathematics
2024–2025
University of Queensland · thesis on abductive explanations in first-order logic, with applications in explainable AI
BA/BSc in Mathematics, Philosophy, and Economics
2018–2023
Victoria University of Wellington · Kahotea Scholar
Selected Work
Europe 2031 · 2026 · covered in Bloomberg, Handelsblatt, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Semafor
SaferAI Frontier Risk Management Ratings · 2025 · covered in TIME and The Guardian