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Elliott Thornley (EJT)

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I work on AI alignment. Right now, I’m using ideas from decision theory to design and train safer artificial agents.

I also do work in ethics, focusing on the moral importance of future generations.

You can email me at thornley@mit.edu.

Prefer­ence gaps as a safe­guard against AI self-replication

Bradford Saad26 Nov 2025 14:57 UTC
16 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Shut­down­able Agents through POST-Agency

Elliott Thornley (EJT)16 Sep 2025 12:10 UTC
17 points
0 comments54 min readEA link
(arxiv.org)

A Fis­sion Prob­lem for Per­son-Affect­ing Views (Elliott Thorn­ley)

Global Priorities Institute7 Nov 2024 15:01 UTC
20 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Towards shut­down­able agents via stochas­tic choice

Elliott Thornley (EJT)8 Jul 2024 10:14 UTC
26 points
1 comment23 min readEA link
(arxiv.org)

A non-iden­tity dilemma for per­son-af­fect­ing views (Elliott Thorn­ley)

Global Priorities Institute4 Apr 2024 16:30 UTC
13 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

My favourite ar­gu­ments against per­son-af­fect­ing views

Elliott Thornley (EJT)2 Apr 2024 10:57 UTC
84 points
36 comments17 min readEA link

Crit­i­cal-Set Views, Bio­graph­i­cal Iden­tity, and the Long Term

Elliott Thornley (EJT)28 Feb 2024 14:30 UTC
9 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(philpapers.org)

The Shut­down Prob­lem: In­com­plete Prefer­ences as a Solution

Elliott Thornley (EJT)23 Feb 2024 16:01 UTC
26 points
0 comments41 min readEA link

The Shut­down Prob­lem: An AI Eng­ineer­ing Puz­zle for De­ci­sion Theorists

Elliott Thornley (EJT)23 Oct 2023 15:36 UTC
35 points
1 comment38 min readEA link
(philpapers.org)

The price is right

Elliott Thornley (EJT)16 Oct 2023 16:34 UTC
27 points
5 comments4 min readEA link
(openairopensea.substack.com)

How much should gov­ern­ments pay to pre­vent catas­tro­phes? Longter­mism’s limited role

Elliott Thornley (EJT)19 Mar 2023 16:50 UTC
258 points
35 comments35 min readEA link
(philpapers.org)

There are no co­her­ence theorems

Elliott Thornley (EJT)20 Feb 2023 21:52 UTC
108 points
49 comments19 min readEA link

Paper sum­mary: The Epistemic Challenge to Longter­mism (Chris­tian Tarsney)

Global Priorities Institute11 Oct 2022 11:29 UTC
39 points
5 comments4 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Paper sum­mary: The case for strong longter­mism (Hilary Greaves and William MacAskill)

Global Priorities Institute29 Apr 2022 15:52 UTC
43 points
27 comments4 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

[Creative Writ­ing Con­test] [Refer­ral] Pas­cal’s Mug­ger Strikes Again

Elliott Thornley (EJT)14 Sep 2021 8:00 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Im­pos­si­bil­ity of a Satis­fac­tory Pop­u­la­tion Prospect Axiology

Elliott Thornley (EJT)12 May 2021 15:35 UTC
36 points
12 comments1 min readEA link
(link.springer.com)