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Ben Snodin

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I previously led the Existential Security team at Rethink Priorities, worked on nanotechnology strategy research (resources database here) and co-founded EA Pathfinder. Right now I’m taking time out to work out how to best contribute to AI safety efforts.

I’ve worked as a Senior Research Scholar at the Future of Humanity Institute and spent 5 years working in finance as a quantitative analyst. Before then I completed a PhD in DNA nanotechnology at Oxford University. I’ve signed the Giving What We Can pledge.

Feel free to send me a private message here, or to email me at hello [at] bensnodin dot com. You can also give me anonymous feedback with this form!

In­cu­bat­ing AI x-risk pro­jects: some per­sonal reflections

Ben Snodin19 Dec 2023 17:03 UTC
84 points
10 comments9 min readEA link

The Re­think Pri­ori­ties Ex­is­ten­tial Se­cu­rity Team’s Strat­egy for 2023

Ben Snodin8 May 2023 8:08 UTC
92 points
3 comments16 min readEA link

[Question] What are the best ex­am­ples of ob­ject-level work that was done by (or at least in­spired by) the longter­mist EA com­mu­nity that con­cretely and leg­ibly re­duced ex­is­ten­tial risk?

Ben Snodin11 Feb 2023 13:49 UTC
118 points
18 comments1 min readEA link

A new database of nan­otech­nol­ogy strat­egy re­sources

Ben Snodin5 Nov 2022 5:20 UTC
39 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

My thoughts on nan­otech­nol­ogy strat­egy re­search as an EA cause area

Ben Snodin2 May 2022 9:41 UTC
136 points
17 comments33 min readEA link

Mid-ca­reer peo­ple: strongly con­sider switch­ing to EA work

Ben Snodin26 Apr 2022 11:22 UTC
196 points
34 comments8 min readEA link

In­ves­ti­gat­ing how tech­nol­ogy-fo­cused aca­demic fields be­come self-sustaining

Ben Snodin6 Sep 2021 15:04 UTC
43 points
4 comments42 min readEA link

[Question] How much will pre-trans­for­ma­tive AI speed up R&D?

Ben Snodin31 May 2021 20:20 UTC
23 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

My at­tempt to think about AI timelines

Ben Snodin18 May 2021 17:05 UTC
53 points
20 comments8 min readEA link

‘Ex­is­ten­tial Risk and Growth’ Deep Dive #2 - A Crit­i­cal Look at Model Conclusions

Ben Snodin18 Aug 2020 10:25 UTC
58 points
11 comments17 min readEA link

Ben Sn­odin’s Quick takes

Ben Snodin5 May 2020 9:13 UTC
4 points
38 comments1 min readEA link