Book: A History of AI x-risk

Building on a course I've been designing, I'm writing a short book on the history of existential risk from AI for a general audience

Out of This Box: AI Safety Musical

Out of This Box: The Last Musical (Written by Humans)

Dads Against AGI Inc.

Funding For Humanity: An AI Risk Podcast

Philanthropic advising

Attention-Guided-RL for Human-Like LMs

Compute Funding

human intelligence amplification @ Berkeley Genomics Project

accelerating strong human germline genomic engineering to make lots of geniuses

AI Safety Atlas

Distilling AI safety research into a complete learning ecosystem: textbook, courses, guides, videos, and more.

Luthien

Developing AI Control for Immediate Real-World Use

Evaluating LLM Safety in a Multilingual World

Online Biosecurity Course Starting May 2025

Running the initial online version of a 4-week biosecurity course for 20-50 participants

Develop technical framework for human control mechanisms for agentic AI systems

Building a technical mechanism to assess risks, evaluate safeguards, and identify control gaps in agentic AI systems, enabling verifiable human oversight.

"Advancing Animal Welfare for Buffalo and Poultry in Nepal

"Advancing Animal Welfare for Buffalo and Poultry in Nepal, Policy Development, Community Involvement, and Consumer Education"

Establishing the Utilitarian School of Thought in Thai Society

Utilitarianism.net into Thai

General support for SaferAI

Support for SaferAI’s technical and governance research and education programs to enable responsible and safe AI.

Ozempic for Sleep: Research for Safely Reducing Sleep Needs

Moonshot research project under Prof. George Church at Harvard Medical School to reduce adult sleep needs to 4-5h

Bridge Funding for the Sydney AI Safety Hub (SASH)

Research on AI-Powered Peer Review: Evaluating LLMs for Academic Feedback

Comparing Closed and Open-Source Models for Reviews, fine-tuning LLMs on openreview data. Stretch: applying mech interp to find out the most important things

Reducing the severe lack of Affordable Houses in sub-Saharan Africa

AMCI: a new vision for affordable housing in Africa

Animal Advocacy Innovation Hub in the Bay Area

Hackathon and co-working space for animal advocates at Mox SF

TechnoEthos: A Dual Focus on Research and Technical Upskilling for Tech Ethics

Help me, an economic historian from an underrepresented background, develop tech skills and reflect on adv. technologies to pivot to an AI governance career.