Bengüsu's work at Arq spans international AI governance coordination, scenario planning, and stakeholder engagement across European and global policy and tech audiences.
Previously, at the Centre for Future Generations, she co-authored Advanced AI: Possible Futures, Europe and the Geopolitics of AGI, and a portfolio of research for policy measures to increase societal resilience against AI risks covering frontier AI risk thresholds, open-weight models, and dual-use aspects. She has worked in the industry across tech and high-performance computing roles. She co-founded AI Safety Türkiye and is a published novelist.
Bengüsu holds an MA in Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences from Columbia University and a BSc in Industrial Engineering and Psychology from Sabancı University.
Publications
Arq publications
What we talk about when we talk about AI for science
By Bengüsu Özcan
"AI for science" is not a single category, and the distinction shapes what we should invest in, why, and how.
Preparing Europe for Transformative AI
By Arq Team
Arq Foundation is a new Brussels think tank helping Europe keep its agency, resilience, and flourishing in an age of transformative AI.