A snapshot of what's occupying my time, brain, and attention.
This summer
Running operations for UChicago's Existential Risk Lab (XLab) as part of their summer research fellowship.
Building datasets for emergent misalignment research — turning a fuzzy research question into something you can actually measure.
Continuing as deputy director of the Wisconsin AI Safety Initiative (WAISI).
No classes at the moment, it's summer, which means more room for research and side quests. Before summer ends, my plans aside from this fellowship include going to Lollapalooza, going to OASIS (A Kairos hosted workshop for university AIS group organizers), and potentially visiting home. I still have a couple flight tickets to book before this is all finalized
Thinking about
What actually makes a model become misaligned — and how you'd catch it early.
How the AI safety and policy worlds could do a better job talking to each other.
Whether good research is bottlenecked more by ideas or by operations.
Listening to
Olivia Rodrigo's entire "You Look Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love"
Everything Qobuz recommends after that
All the artists who are performing at Lolla this year