About us
Tutke is an interdisciplinary non-profit organisation. We promote scientific understanding of the safe development of artificial intelligence and support research and regulation leading to it.
Tutke was founded in 2024 to address the growing need to advance safe AI in Finland. Our network brings together researchers, policymakers, and technology professionals from diverse fields.
Operations
Erkki Kulovesi
Erkki Kulovesi is the Chair of the Board at Tutke. He holds a Master’s in History, has built his career in the field of education, and has long followed AI safety. With a professional background in history and the social sciences, he has a deep understanding of how societies transform during major periods of upheaval. Erkki has worked for Macroscopic and has completed BlueDot Impact’s AI Governance course as well as CLR’s Foundations course. He has also achieved success on the forecasting platform Metaculus and in the RAND Forecasting Initiative.
Santeri Koivula
Santeri is the Operations Director at Tutke. He holds an MSc in Science, Technology and Policy from ETH Zurich and researched AI risks and EU AI policy at the Future of Life Institute as part of the Talos Fellowship. He has also interned at Demos Helsinki and CERN, and worked as a visiting researcher at the Pivotal Fellowship. He is a member of the Forecasting Research Institute’s AI expert panel.
Anna Katariina Wisakanto
Anna Katariina Wisakanto is a Senior Researcher at the Center for AI Risk Management & Alignment (CARMA). Her research draws on systems thinking and philosophy to understand how sociotechnical systems work. She is a Research Affiliate at the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative and a sometimes visiting scholar at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge.
Dmitrii Gusev
Dmitrii Gusev studies Computer Science at Aalto University. He leads AaltoAI / Safety, and he co-organized the 2025 Finnish Alignment Engineering Bootcamp.
Iska Knuuttila
Iska Knuuttila works as a marketing assistant at Osana yhteistä ratkaisua Oy. He graduated as a Bachelor of Business Administration from Team Academy by Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences. He has also completed the Frontier AI Governance Course by BlueDot Impact.
Network
Kaj Sotala
Kaj Sotala started work on AI safety in 2012 and has since authored several papers on the subject. He has been a Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and a Researcher at the Foundational Research Institute. Kaj has degrees in Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science from University of Helsinki.
Katarina Slama
Katarina Slama was a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI and a Senior Research Scientist at UK AI Security Institute, conducting technical and policy research on AI safety, security, and societal impacts. Her work includes co-authorship on the InstructGPT paper (NeurIPS), research on societally relevant LLM behaviors, and evaluations of LLM behaviors relevant to loss-of-control threat models. She has a PhD in Neuroscience from UC Berkeley.
Rudolf Laine
Rudolf Laine works as a member of the technical staff in Thinking Machines. He was the CTO at Workshop labs. He was the technical team manager on the Situational Awareness Dataset benchmark, published in NeurIPS and used in OpenAI's pre-deployment testing. He has completed a Master's degree in Computer Science at University of Cambridge, and has studied in a machine learning PhD program at University of Oxford.
Olli Järviniemi
Olli Järviniemi is researching AI safety with UK AI Security Institute, and has previously completed a PhD in Mathematics at University of Turku. He specializes in AI control and deceptive alignment.
Onni Aarne
Onni Aarne researches compute governance and has done work for the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy and Rethink Priorities, where he worked in the AI Governance and Strategy team. He has a degree in Computer Science and Data Science from University of Helsinki.
Joel Pyykkö
Joel Pyykkö is an AI safety researcher at Aintelope. He has a Doctoral degree in Computer Science from University of Helsinki.
Vili Kohonen
Vili Kohonen researches LLM generalisation and how to mitigate potential large-scale harm from misgeneralisation. Vili was responsible for the education and research mentoring of 2025 Finnish Alignment Engineering Bootcamp and is about to receive his Doctoral degree in Mathematics from Aalto University.
Mikko Hemmi
Mikko Hemmi advises leading Nordic enterprises, startups, and public sector organizations as the CEO of data & AI consultancy Oikoa, and has previously worked in investment banking and software. He's a co-founder of Tutke and has previously worked as the Executive Director of Tutke. Mikko has a Master's degree in Computer Science from Aalto University.
Patrik Gayer
Patrik Gayer is the Vice President of Global Affairs at NestAI. He was previously the Director of Government Relations at AMD (formerly Silo AI), and has also worked as a AI & Data Policy Lead at Tesla, and as a Director at Tekir and Miltton. Patrik has a degree in Political Science from University of Helsinki and in Public Administration from Harvard University.
Suvi Auvinen
Suvi Auvinen is a journalist, activist, and writer. She works as a journalist at Uusi Juttu -newsmedia. She has previously led responsible AI strategy at Ellun Kanat, and has a Bachelor of Arts from Turku University of Applied Sciences and a Master of Arts from University of the Arts Helsinki.
Joonas Ollila
Joonas Ollila is a Business Development Executive at Qutwo. He's a technologist leader who has been the CEO of optimization firm Weoptit and the CEO of Vuorox, amongst other roles. He has a degree in Systems Analysis and Operations Research from Aalto University.
Santeri Tani
Santeri Tani works as the Research Community Manager at the Center on Long-term Risk. He was previously the Operative Director at Tutke. Santeri Tani has studied Computer Science at University of Helsinki. Previously, he has worked in robotics, machine vision, and health tech. He is also advancing forecasting and preparedness capabilities through the RAND Forecasting Initiative.
Board
Members
- Erkki Kulovesi, Chair of the Board
- Mikko Rauhala, Vice Chair of the Board
- Mikko Hemmi
- Santeri Leinonen
- Anna Katariina Wisakanto
Deputy members
- Santeri Koivula
- Iska Knuuttila
- Dmitrii Gusev
Get in touch
Contact us at info@tutke.org
You can also join our Telegram discussion group here.
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Organisation details
Turvallisen Tekoälyn Keskus Tutke ry
Business ID 3496506-2
Membership
Tutke is a registered association (Turvallisen tekoälyn keskus Tutke ry). Anyone who accepts the association’s purpose can apply for membership, and applications are reviewed by the board. The fee for full members is €25 per year. As a supporting member, you can support Tutke’s work with €500–5,000 per year. Supporting members don’t vote at association meetings. The amount is agreed by email at info@tutke.org.
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