Boilerplate
Short, 40 words. The Complex AI Institute is an independent, non-profit think tank for AI deployment, headquartered in London. It advises governments and global enterprises and publishes primary-sourced research across nine frontiers, from sovereign and agentic AI to defence, health and regulation.
Long, 90 words. The Complex AI Institute is an independent, non-profit think tank for AI deployment, headquartered in London. It began in 2019 as a group of practitioners working on Complex AI: artificial intelligence operating where objectives conflict, mistakes are not reversible, and decisions must be traceable to whoever owns them. It formed into a think tank in 2026. The Institute advises governments and global enterprises, is appointing a fellowship of people who have deployed AI systems at scale, and publishes primary-sourced research across nine frontiers that is free to read and firewalled from its advisory work.
Fast facts
- Founded in 2019 as a group of AI practitioners advancing Complex AI; formed into a non-profit think tank in 2026, London. Being established as a non-profit company limited by guarantee.
- The Institute’s founding thesis, Complex AI, dates to 2019 and was set out publicly in a 2020 TEDx talk at Aston University.
- Nine research frontiers. Eight founding fellowships offered and accepted; four named, the rest announced in September.
- Publisher of the GCC AI Regulatory Tracker: the interactive, primary-sourced map of data protection, transfer, AI governance and free-zone regimes across all six Gulf states, updated quarterly.
- Signature finding, August 2026: every GCC state now has enforceable data protection rules, and not one has a binding general AI law.
Spokespeople
Each fellow leads the Institute’s work on one frontier and is available for comment within it. Requests go through press@complexai.org rather than direct, so we can tell you quickly whether someone is available and on what.
- Sam Beni, founder and executive chairman. Complex AI, the deployment gap, Gulf AI regulation.
- Dr Rabimba Karanjai. Agentic AI, AI security, autonomous systems acting under real permissions.
- Steve Suarez. Quantum AI, enterprise adoption, innovation at institutional scale.
- Michael Stattelman. Defence and cyber AI, computer vision, digital safety.
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How we work with press
- We answer. Media enquiries get a reply within one working day, including when the answer is that we cannot help.
- We honour embargoes and expect the same. Research is offered under embargo where there is a reason for one, not as a matter of routine.
- We will say when we do not know. The Institute comments on what its fellows have done and what its research shows, and declines the rest rather than filling airtime.
- We fact-check on request. Send us the passage before publication and we will tell you what is wrong in it, without asking to review the rest of your piece.
Citing our research
Cite as “Complex AI Institute”, with the publication name and date. Every statistic we publish names its primary source; if you find one that does not, tell us and we will correct it publicly. Corrections: press@complexai.org.