Tobin South

Tobin works on MCP and agents at Anthropic, and is a research fellow at Stanford University, advising research for the Loyal Agents initiative in HAI. Tobin completed his PhD at MIT in 2025 on “Private, Verifiable, and Auditable AI Systems”, where he was an Australian-American Fulbright Scholar and a senior fellow with the E14 VC fund.

Tobin has been a mentor and advisor across a range of fellowships and institutes, including Pivotal Research, Cambridge ERA, and the Oxford IDAI from the Cosmos Institute. Tobin was an author of the 2025 International AI Safety Report and has research spanning AI security, technical governance, and policy.