Tantum Collins
Tantum Collins is an artificial intelligence researcher who co-authored research on AI-assisted democratic deliberation under a Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMindGoogle DeepMind is Google’s artificial intelligence research organization, formed in April 2023 by merging DeepMind, which Google acquired in 2014, with the Brain team from Google Research, and led by CEO Demis Hassabis. It developed AlphaGo, AlphaFold, and the Gemini family of models, and Hassabis and John Jumper received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold’s protein structure prediction work.Open the full entry affiliation and is now a member of the AI research lab Inherent, whose manifesto he co-signed with other team members.
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October 18, 2024Co-Authoring Research on AI-Assisted Democratic Deliberation
He was one of the authors of the Science paper “AI can help humans find common ground in democratic deliberation,” listed with an affiliation at Google DeepMind in London; the paper appeared in the issue dated October 18, 2024.[1]
December 2025Founding of Inherent
According to the personal website of co-founder Louis KirschLouis KirschLouis Kirsch is a researcher working on meta-learning and the automation of AI research who did his PhD with Jürgen Schmidhuber at IDSIA and worked as a research scientist at Google DeepMind; he is now a co-founder of Inherent, a London-based AI research lab.Open the full entry, the AI research lab Inherent was founded in December 2025 and emerged from stealth in May 2026. The company is incorporated as a public benefit corporation and aims to build AI agents that accelerate scientific discovery; co-founder Edward HughesEdward HughesAI researcher and choral conductor; Inherent cofounder and chief scientist, formerly at Google DeepMind.Open the full entry describes it as a London-based company.[2][3][4]
August 13, 2026Co-Authoring a Paper on AI Scientists Replicating Research
He was one of the authors of “Training AI Scientists to Replicate Research,” a paper released on arXiv by the Inherent team.[5]
As of October 2026: Author of Inherent’s Manifesto
The manifesto published on Inherent’s website is signed by him together with Edward Hughes, Louis Kirsch and Kaloyan Aleksiev and sets out the lab’s idea of applying “recursive self-improvement” to the whole research organization. The website does not list his job title.[3]
Related Organizations, Websites, and Public Accounts
Inherent: Official website: https://inherentlabs.ai/ (opens in a new window)[3]
LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tantum-collins-7b916b29/ (opens in a new window)[3]