Craig Swift

Craig Swift is a strategic engineering director and founding AI technologist with 10+ years of experience building and scaling distributed teams and complex systems across AI, fintech, cybersecurity, and decentralized platforms. He’s on the founding team at AutoGPT—the open-source agent framework that helped spark the agentic AI movement—where he’s focused on production-grade agent reliability, auditability, and safety. Craig is a co-author of widely cited agent evaluation and safety research, including GAIA: a benchmark for General AI Assistants (arXiv:2311.12983) and Testing Language Model Agents Safely in the Wild (arXiv:2311.10538), with collaborators spanning Meta and Microsoft Research. Previously, he led Minima’s engineering scale-up from early product to hundreds of thousands of...