Hi! I'm Sophie, a gap year student at Stanford focusing on AI governance for catastrophic risk mitigation. I write a Substack, The Counterfactual -- https://thecounterfactual.substack.com/ -- and I'm currently an ERA Fellow on the AIxBiosecurity track working on tiered access controls for LLMs/cloud labs and interventions to stop China from open-weighting their models.

I'm in the early stages of co-founding a donor advisory initiative focused on neglected areas within AI safety, and would appreciate connections with anyone in the grantmaking/fundraising space!

Happy to chat / might be helpful if you're interested in learning more about:

• AIxBiosecurity: tractable problems, current regulatory gaps, recent uplift studies, policy proposals
• Mutually Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM) from Superintelligence Strategy
• Risks associated with open-weight models (abliteration, safeguards, fine-tuning)