Miguel De Guzman
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Miguelito "Miguel" de Guzman

AI safety researcher and software builder, with 15 years in finance, accounting and audit behind both.

Creator of evolved, whitehatstoic and Individuation Lab. I research how AI systems can be made safe, build software for real businesses with a team of AI agents, and bring an auditor's habit of checking every number.

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Expertise

AI safety and alignment research

Four years of hands-on research on making language models safe.

  • Split Personality Training: research fellow at SPAR in Florian Dietz's stream (arXiv 2602.05532).
  • RLLM: layered training that held off 67.8% of 1,500 jailbreak attacks on a 1.5B model.
  • Morphological Reinforcement Learning and the Synthetic State Hypothesis (CirroLytix).
  • Jailbreak simulations and theory of mind tests on language models.

Building software with AI agents

From researcher to shipping production software, working with a team of AI agents.

  • Led the Vesla ERP and the Vesla Rent-a-Car app (veslarentacar.com).
  • Builds and runs whitehatstoic, evolved (16 projects) and Individuation Lab.
  • Python, PyTorch, language model APIs and fine-tuning; SQL.

Finance, accounting and audit

15 years across real estate, construction, retail and motor companies in four countries.

  • Internal audit: HR and timekeeping, VAT compliance, assets in a parent-subsidiary merger.
  • Revenue, cost and payables accounting; daily to monthly reporting.
  • Financial software and cost accounting; BS Accounting and Finance.

Operations and business

Runs things end to end, from warehouses to a small business of my own.

  • Materials control across 11 project sites with a team of 18.
  • Co-owned and ran a hostel and tour business.
  • Worked in English, Spanish and with Arabic records.

Experience

  1. Owner · whitehatstoic

    September 2026 - present · Chiang Mai, Thailand

    Creator of whitehatstoic (software, security and AI safety), evolved and Individuation Lab.

  2. Head of Research and Development · MRM Investments LLC

    November 2025 - September 2026 (11 months)

    Pioneered the Vesla ERP and the Vesla Rent-a-Car app (veslarentacar.com).

  3. Research Fellow · Supervised Program for Alignment Research (SPAR)

    September 2025 - December 2025 (4 months)

    Mentee in Florian Dietz's research stream on Split Personality Training.

  4. Visiting Researcher · CirroLytix

    August 2025 - September 2025 (2 months)

    Research stream: Morphological Reinforcement Learning and the Synthetic State Hypothesis.

  5. Internal Auditor · Vesla Motors LLC

    June 2024 - December 2025 (1 year 7 months) · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

  6. Lead Researcher, AI Safety (apprenticeship) · Data Ethics PH

    January 2024 - May 2024 (5 months)

    • Led AI safety and ethics research directions.
    • Wrote on where AI and technology meet other fields of thought.
    • Promoted AI safety and ethics in the Philippines through social media.

  7. Independent Researcher

    November 2022 - March 2026 (3 years 5 months) · Chiang Mai, Thailand

    • Investigated the AI safety and alignment problem (research).
    • Built tools with language models, PyTorch and various APIs.
    • Studied how evolutionary learning compares with language model pretraining.
    • Simulated jailbreak attacks and theory of mind tasks on language models.

  8. Revenue Accountant · ITC International Tiles Company

    February 2019 - May 2023 (4 years 4 months) · George Town, Cayman Islands

    • Reviewed and posted all sales transactions, including cash and check collections and discount checks.
    • Verified all head-office inventory releases.
    • Prepared daily, weekly and monthly collection reports.

  9. Business Owner · Navotac

    May 2017 - September 2018 (1 year 5 months) · Palawan, Philippines

    • Investor and co-owner of a hostel and tour business.
    • Ran customer service, tour expeditions, accounting, finance and inventory.
    • Drone footage, content creation and social media marketing.

  10. Accountant · Vesla Motors (formerly Telsa Motors LLC)

    August 2015 - December 2016 (1 year 5 months) · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    • Handled all accounting: sales, procurement, inventory and bank reconciliations.
    • Technology, IT and server support.
    • SQL extraction and loading for English and Arabic sales and purchase documents.

  11. General Accountant · Akoga Cementeria

    February 2014 - January 2015 (1 year) · Malabo, Equatorial Guinea

    • General accounting and preparation of documents in Spanish.
    • Secretarial and technology support.

  12. Senior Internal Auditor · Eton Properties Philippines, Inc.

    June 2012 - February 2014 (1 year 9 months) · Makati, Philippines

    • Audited Human Resources processes and timekeeping.
    • Reviewed value added tax compliance over several periods.
    • Verified asset records in a parent-subsidiary merger.
    • Reviewed marketing and sales promotions.

  13. Officer in Charge, Materials Control and Warehousing · Axeia Group of Companies

    May 2011 - June 2012 (1 year 2 months) · Pasig, Philippines

    Oversaw materials control across 11 project sites and a team of 18 warehouse staff: inventory levels, supply chain and timely delivery of materials to each site.

  14. Cost and Payables Officer · Axeia Group of Companies

    March 2008 - May 2011 (3 years 3 months)

    Construction finance in a real estate firm: managed project costs and paid contractors.

Education

  1. Polytechnic University of the Philippines

    June 2002 - May 2006

    Bachelor of Science, Accounting and Finance.

Elsewhere

LinkedIn · GitHub · LessWrong · Hugging Face · Substack