Merlin Stein is a Research Scientist in Societal Resilience at the UK AI Security Institute (UK AISI) and an Oxford PhD candidate. Their research, supported by a Clarendon scholarship of Oxford University Press, focuses on AI governance, evaluation, and monitoring, particularly concerning AI agents and their societal impact. Stein explores gradual disempowerment risks of AI, including AI codification, AI-AI collusion, and AI value cementation.