Ron Bodkin is an AI entrepreneur, engineer, and policy advisor specializing in AI safety, governance, responsible AI, and the evaluation of autonomous AI systems. He is Founder of Project Elephant, where he leads work on comprehension audits and metrics for automated AI research and development, measuring whether the people responsible for AI systems understand what AI agents build. He is also a Senior Advisor to the International Association for Safe and Ethical Artificial Intelligence and an Advisor to the Vector Institute, where he advises on adaptive agent evaluations. He previously founded ChainML, an AI agent company focused on trust and accountability, and currently leads research and policy work on frontier AI governance.

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Previously, Ron served as Vice President of AI Engineering and CIO at the Vector Institute, Canada's national AI institute, where he led applied AI engineering, research infrastructure, and initiatives spanning AI safety, privacy, healthcare, and machine learning operations. He advised the Ontario and Canadian federal governments on AI policy and regulation and contributed to the development of Canada's national AI compute strategy. At Google, he served as Technical Director of Applied Artificial Intelligence in the Google Cloud CTO office, where he led Responsible AI strategy and customer programs focused on fairness, interpretability, and privacy. Earlier, he held AI and technology leadership roles at Teradata and founded Think Big Analytics, which he grew into a 75-person data science and engineering company before its acquisition by Teradata. He also co-founded C-bridge, which became a publicly traded company valued at more than $1 billion.