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Akash

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AI safety governance/​strategy research & field-building.

Formerly a PhD student in clinical psychology @ UPenn, college student at Harvard, and summer research fellow at the Happier Lives Institute.

Things I Learned at the EA Stu­dent Summit

Akash27 Oct 2020 19:03 UTC
148 points
13 comments6 min readEA link

New sur­vey: 46% of Amer­i­cans are con­cerned about ex­tinc­tion from AI; 69% sup­port a six-month pause in AI development

Akash5 Apr 2023 1:26 UTC
143 points
34 comments1 min readEA link

Three Reflec­tions from 101 EA Global Conversations

Akash25 Apr 2022 22:02 UTC
128 points
16 comments6 min readEA link

A sum­mary of ev­ery Re­plac­ing Guilt post

Akash30 Jun 2022 0:24 UTC
127 points
5 comments10 min readEA link

The Over­ton Win­dow widens: Ex­am­ples of AI risk in the media

Akash23 Mar 2023 17:10 UTC
112 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

In­stead of tech­ni­cal re­search, more peo­ple should fo­cus on buy­ing time

Akash5 Nov 2022 20:43 UTC
107 points
31 comments1 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Scott Alexan­der re­acts to OpenAI’s lat­est post

Akash11 Mar 2023 22:24 UTC
105 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Dis­cus­sion about AI Safety fund­ing (FB tran­script)

Akash30 Apr 2023 19:05 UTC
102 points
10 comments6 min readEA link

Ad­vice I’ve Found Helpful as I Ap­ply to EA Jobs

Akash23 Jan 2022 18:53 UTC
90 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

Talk to me about your sum­mer plans

Akash4 May 2022 21:26 UTC
87 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Re­quest to AGI or­ga­ni­za­tions: Share your views on paus­ing AI progress

Akash11 Apr 2023 17:30 UTC
85 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

7 traps that (we think) new al­ign­ment re­searchers of­ten fall into

Akash27 Sep 2022 23:13 UTC
73 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

13 back­ground claims about EA

Akash7 Sep 2022 3:54 UTC
70 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

Lifeguards

Akash10 Jun 2022 21:12 UTC
69 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

Ques­tions That Lead to Im­pact­ful Conversations

Akash24 Mar 2022 17:25 UTC
61 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

What would a com­pute mon­i­tor­ing plan look like? [Linkpost]

Akash26 Mar 2023 19:33 UTC
61 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Time-Time Tradeoffs

Akash1 Apr 2022 15:29 UTC
61 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing AI Align­ment Awards: $100k re­search con­tests about goal mis­gen­er­al­iza­tion & corrigibility

Akash22 Nov 2022 22:19 UTC
60 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing a Stu­dent Es­say Con­test on The Precipice

Akash30 Jan 2022 2:18 UTC
55 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Six Take­aways from EA Global and EA Retreats

Akash16 Dec 2021 21:14 UTC
55 points
4 comments10 min readEA link