Promoting sensible AI development

I’m an AI safety researcher who worked at OpenAI for four years, leading teams like our dangerous capability evaluations. These days I research and write about “how to make AI go better”, by which I mean avoiding potential AI catastrophes and hopefully achieving an amazing future on the other side.

My academic background is in computer science (MS from Georgia Tech) and economics (AB from Brown). I also have a fondness for policy and philosophy from my time as a competitive debater.

Music and movies and more

I live in San Francisco’s Inner Richmond neighborhood with my fiancée and a wide range of musical equipment, which I hope to become competent at one of these days. Lately you might find me at the movies putting my AMC A-List membership to good use, or perhaps on a run through Golden Gate Park. I’m also a big fan of nature photography and various puzzle-genre games.