Francesca Gomez — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Founder of Wiser Human, an AI safety organization focused on developing advanced monitoring and control systems for AI coding agents.
Co-Founder of Smarter Human (2018-2024), where she helped startups assess AI ethics and compliance and designed governance frameworks.
Worked in digital risk management at HSBC, Deloitte, American Express, and Tandem.
Holds an MSc in Human-Centred Computing and a BSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sussex.
Serves as a Research Team Lead for Arcadia Impact's AI Governance Taskforce.

Biography

Francesca Gomez is the founder of Wiser Human, an AI safety organization dedicated to developing advanced monitoring and control systems for AI coding agents. Her work at Wiser Human measures the effectiveness of existing safeguards, identifies their failures with AI coding agents, and builds verifiable, empirical defenses. This process aims to expose the limits of control to inform safer decisions for long-term AI safety.