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Pedro Bentancour Garin

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Humanities researcher and engineer, building the global AI governance & safety layer.

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About Me

Pedro Bentancour Garin is the founder and CEO of Lisa Intel, a Delaware C-Corp building one of the first integrated global infrastructures for AI governance, safety, and ethical oversight. With a unique academic background that combines engineering, humanities research, political science, and complex systems, Pedro brings an interdisciplinary perspective rarely found in the AI sector. He has spent more than 20 years working with research, ethics, governance, innovation, and cross-domain problem solving, which has shaped Lisa Intel’s systemic and human-centered approach to advanced AI safety.

Before founding Lisa Intel, Pedro conducted research at the doctoral level in the humanities, including international work at institutions such as Oxford, Melbourne, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, and major European academic centers. His technical foundation comes from a engineering, he has also studiesmd political science, governance, and philosophy. This combination has enabled him to design a governance architecture for AI that is both technically grounded and aligned with human rights, ethical principles, and long-term societal stability.

Pedro leads Lisa Intel as a founder committed to global cooperation and responsible technological development. He has filed multiple patents covering AI oversight, containment, research automation, and ethical control systems, with more on the way. Under his leadership, Lisa Intel has been accepted into the Dubai Founders HQ program and recognized by government agencies, research institutions, and investors for its potential to become a global standard for safe and aligned AI. Pedro’s work is driven by a deep conviction that AI must be built to strengthen human flourishing, protect democratic values, and ensure that future generations inherit a safe and stable technological world.

Projects

Distinguishing Intelligence from Agency in Frontier AI Systems

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Runtime Governance for Advanced AI Systems

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Comments

Distinguishing Intelligence from Agency in Frontier AI Systems
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Pedro Bentancour Garin

18 minutes ago

Other papers that lay as base for our proposed research project:

Butlin, Long et al. (2023) – “Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence”

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08708?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Erik Hoel (2025) – “A Disproof of Large Language Model Consciousness”

https://arxiv.org/html/2512.12802v1?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Distinguishing Intelligence from Agency in Frontier AI Systems
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Pedro Bentancour Garin

23 minutes ago

Empirical evidence that performance illusions are mistaken for cognition, supporting the architectural view of agency rather than emergent consciousness. Paper from Apple:

https://ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-illusion-of-thinking.pdf