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Dawn Drescher
Cofounder
GiveWiki
I’m working on impact markets – markets to trade nonexcludable goods. (My profile.)
I have a conversation menu and a Calendly for you to pick from!
If you’re also interested in less directly optimific things – such as climbing around and on top of boulders or amateurish musings on psychology – then you may enjoy some of the posts I don’t cross-post from my blog, Impartial Priorities.
Pronouns: Ideally she or they. I also still go by Denis and Telofy in various venues.
Working (6-15 years)
AI alignment
Prizes and contests
+ 15 more
2583
Patrick Gruban 🔸
COO
Successif
COO Successif, Trustee Effective Ventures UK
Entrepreneur (currently textiles, previously software) for 25+ years and interested in EA since 2015, joining the local group and donating. I joined the EA Munich organiser team and took the GWWC pledge in 2020, developed the software for the new donation management system Effektiv Spenden is using in Germany and Switzerland in 2021 and was co-director of EA Germany in 2023/24.
I run the donation drive Knitters Against Malaria, which has raised over $100,000 for the Against Malaria Foundation since 2018.
Working (15+ years)
Leadership
Organization strategy
+ 4 more
2235
Steven Byrnes
Research Fellow
Astera
Hi I'm Steve Byrnes, an AGI safety / AI alignment researcher in Boston, MA, USA, with a particular focus on brain algorithms. See https://sjbyrnes.com/agi.html for a summary of my research and sorted list of writing. Physicist by training. Email: steven.byrnes@gmail.com. Leave me anonymous feedback here. I’m also at: RSS feed , Twitter , Mastodon , Threads , Bluesky , GitHub , Wikipedia , Physics-StackExchange , LinkedIn
Working (6-15 years)
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1492
Robi Rahman
Data Scientist
Epoch
Data scientist working on AI forecasting through Epoch and the Stanford AI Index. GWWC pledge member since 2017. Formerly social chair at Harvard Effective Altruism, facilitator for Arete Fellowship, and founder of the DC Slate Star Codex meetup.
Working (6-15 years)
Global health & development
Philosophy
+ 3 more
1380
jacquesthibs
AI Safety Researcher
Independent Researcher
I work primarily on AI Alignment. My main direction at the moment is to accelerate alignment work via language models and interpretability.
Working (6-15 years)
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1233
Manuel Allgaier
co-founder
AI Safety Berlin
Coach & AI Safety Field Builder, currently working on aisafety.berlin and exploring a match-making service idea (early stage, not yet public)
Formerly director of EA Germany, EA Berlin and EAGxBerlin 2022
Happy to connect with people with shared interests. Message me with ideas, proposals, feedback, connections or just random thoughts!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuelallgaier/
Working (0-5 years)
AI alignment
European Union
+ 8 more
1138
Seth Ariel Green 🔸
Research Scientist
Humane and Sustainable Food Lab
I am a Research Scientist at the Humane and Sustainable Food Lab at Stanford and a nonresident fellow at the Kahneman-Treisman Center at Princeton. By trade, I am a meta-analyst.
Here is my date-me doc.
Working (6-15 years)
Animal product alternatives
Animal welfare
+ 2 more
1138
Mati_Roy
Project Lead for Human Data
xAI
https://matiroy.com/
Working (6-15 years)
AI alignment
AI safety
+ 4 more
734
Ted Sanders
Researcher
OpenAI
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Working (6-15 years)
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429
Peter Wildeford
Chief Advisory Executive
IAPS
I'm a former data scientist with 5 years industry experience now working in Washington DC to bridge the gap between policy and emerging technology. AI is moving very quickly and we need to help the government keep up!
I work at IAPS, a think tank of aspiring wonks working to understand and navigate the transformative potential of advanced AI. Our mission is to identify and promote strategies that maximize the benefits of AI for society and develop thoughtful solutions to minimize its risks.
I'm also a professional forecaster with specializations in geopolitics and electoral forecasting.
Working (6-15 years)
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Dawn Drescher
Joined 10y ago
Cofounder @ GiveWiki
I’m working on impact markets – markets to trade nonexcludable goods. (My profile.)
I have a conversation menu and a Calendly for you to pick from!
If you’re also interested in less directly optimific things – such as climbing around and on top of boulders or amateurish musings on psychology – then you may enjoy some of the posts I don’t cross-post from my blog, Impartial Priorities.
Pronouns: Ideally she or they. I also still go by Denis and Telofy in various venues.
Patrick Gruban 🔸
Joined 5y ago
COO @ Successif
COO Successif, Trustee Effective Ventures UK
Entrepreneur (currently textiles, previously software) for 25+ years and interested in EA since 2015, joining the local group and donating. I joined the EA Munich organiser team and took the GWWC pledge in 2020, developed the software for the new donation management system Effektiv Spenden is using in Germany and Switzerland in 2021 and was co-director of EA Germany in 2023/24.
I run the donation drive Knitters Against Malaria, which has raised over $100,000 for the Against Malaria Foundation since 2018.
Steven Byrnes
Joined 5y ago
Research Fellow @ Astera
Hi I'm Steve Byrnes, an AGI safety / AI alignment researcher in Boston, MA, USA, with a particular focus on brain algorithms. See https://sjbyrnes.com/agi.html for a summary of my research and sorted list of writing. Physicist by training. Email: steven.byrnes@gmail.com. Leave me anonymous feedback here. I’m also at: RSS feed , Twitter , Mastodon , Threads , Bluesky , GitHub , Wikipedia , Physics-StackExchange , LinkedIn
Robi Rahman
Joined 4y ago
Data Scientist @ Epoch
Data scientist working on AI forecasting through Epoch and the Stanford AI Index. GWWC pledge member since 2017. Formerly social chair at Harvard Effective Altruism, facilitator for Arete Fellowship, and founder of the DC Slate Star Codex meetup.
jacquesthibs
Joined 8y ago
AI Safety Researcher @ Independent Researcher
I work primarily on AI Alignment. My main direction at the moment is to accelerate alignment work via language models and interpretability.
Manuel Allgaier
Joined 7y ago
co-founder @ AI Safety Berlin
Coach & AI Safety Field Builder, currently working on aisafety.berlin and exploring a match-making service idea (early stage, not yet public)
Formerly director of EA Germany, EA Berlin and EAGxBerlin 2022
Happy to connect with people with shared interests. Message me with ideas, proposals, feedback, connections or just random thoughts!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuelallgaier/
Seth Ariel Green 🔸
Joined 3y ago
Research Scientist @ Humane and Sustainable Food Lab
I am a Research Scientist at the Humane and Sustainable Food Lab at Stanford and a nonresident fellow at the Kahneman-Treisman Center at Princeton. By trade, I am a meta-analyst.
Here is my date-me doc.
Mati_Roy
Joined 7y ago
Project Lead for Human Data @ xAI
https://matiroy.com/
Ted Sanders
Joined 2y ago
Researcher @ OpenAI
Peter Wildeford
Joined 11y ago
Chief Advisory Executive @ IAPS
I'm a former data scientist with 5 years industry experience now working in Washington DC to bridge the gap between policy and emerging technology. AI is moving very quickly and we need to help the government keep up!
I work at IAPS, a think tank of aspiring wonks working to understand and navigate the transformative potential of advanced AI. Our mission is to identify and promote strategies that maximize the benefits of AI for society and develop thoughtful solutions to minimize its risks.
I'm also a professional forecaster with specializations in geopolitics and electoral forecasting.