AI Safety Founder & Field-Builder
Building the institutions that make AI go well.
I'm the Co-Executive Director of MATS Research, working to solve the talent bottleneck in AI safety & security. Previously a physicist. Based in Berkeley, California.
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AI Safety Undervalues Founders
Why the AI safety field needs to invest more in entrepreneurial talent and organization-building, not just technical research.
Podcast
Building & Scaling the AI Safety Research Community
A conversation on MATS, scaling alignment research training, and the state of the AI safety field.
Recent Writing
Our Cosmic Potential
A reflection on humanity's vast cosmic potential and the existential risks we must navigate to realize it.