Staff
Tim Draelos
Researcher, Office for Fiscal and Regulatory Analysis
AI is the most perfectly designed amplifier of distrust the world has ever seen. Bad people will use it for bad purposes, but it can deceive us even without their help. AI is inherently not what it seems to be. It has no moral compunctions against deceit. It doesn’t even know it’s deceiving. In a court of law, it would be declared not guilty by reason of insanity.
- Tom Gilson
Tim Draelos received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of New Mexico with a focus on artificial neural networks. He worked at Sandia National Laboratories for 34 years, until retirement in 2021, in the areas of signal processing, cryptography, deep learning, and artificial intelligence. His research is grounded in the belief that the mind is more than the brain, and humans have access to the mind of God and his divine reason. Tim founded (in 2017) and chaired, until retirement, the annual Sandia Machine Learning and Deep Learning Workshop, a virtual, open to the public, gathering of researchers for collaboration in machine learning and deep learning.
Tim lives in Albuquerque with his wife and enjoys visiting his three daughters’ families, including 7 grandchildren, tennis, outdoor adventures, exploring God’s hand in creating a universe with exquisite fine-tuning for human existence, and our opportunities and responsibility to collaborate with Him in human flourishing.