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🚨 New for MATS Autumn 2026: the Founding & Field-Building track.
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Some personal news: I've started a new AI safety standards org, and our first two standards are out today.
We're called Guidelight, co-founded with fellow ex-OpenAI safety researcher, Page Hedley. (1/n)
We're hiring grantmakers and senior generalists across our Global Catastrophic Risks teams.
Right now, our biggest constraint is people, not funding, which means every strong hire directly translates into more critical work getting done. 🧵
have we thought about trying to align AI by having it interact with, like, the chillest person we know? like think of your coolest friend. they'd just be hanging out and kicking back. maybe it would like us after that