Peter Wildeford

Karma: 20,096

I’m a globally ranked top 20 forecaster. I believe that AI is not a normal technology. I’m working to help shape AI for global prosperity and human freedom. Previously, I was a former data scientist with five years of industry experience.

My template for a quarterly review + plan

Peter Wildeford8 Jan 2026 13:54 UTC

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Reading list on AI agents and associated policy

Peter Wildeford9 Aug 2024 17:40 UTC

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Eight Fundamental Constraints for Growing a Research Organization

Peter Wildeford14 Jun 2024 1:16 UTC

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Rethink Priorities needs your support. Here’s what we’d do with it.

Peter Wildeford21 Nov 2023 17:55 UTC

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How Rethink Priorities is Addressing Risk and Uncertainty

Marcus_A_Davis7 Nov 2023 13:42 UTC

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Rethink Priorities’ Cross-Cause Cost-Effectiveness Model: Introduction and Overview

Derek Shiller3 Nov 2023 12:26 UTC

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How Rethink Priorities’ Research could inform your grantmaking

kierangreig🔸4 Oct 2023 18:24 UTC

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I am hiring an Executive Research Assistant—improve RP while receiving mentorship

Peter Wildeford29 Aug 2023 12:31 UTC

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(careers.rethinkpriorities.org)

AMA: Peter Wildeford (Co-CEO at Rethink Priorities)

Peter Wildeford18 Jul 2023 21:40 UTC

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Five Years of Rethink Priorities: What We’ve Learned

Peter Wildeford21 Jun 2023 16:20 UTC

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EA is three radical ideas I want to protect

Peter Wildeford27 Mar 2023 15:31 UTC

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Rethink Priorities’ Leadership Statement on the FTX situation

abrahamrowe23 Nov 2022 22:54 UTC

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Announcing Squigglepy, a Python package for Squiggle

Peter Wildeford19 Oct 2022 18:34 UTC

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(github.com)

21 criticisms of EA I’m thinking about

Peter Wildeford1 Sep 2022 19:28 UTC

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Notes on how prizes may fail and how to reduce the risk of them failing

Peter Wildeford30 Aug 2022 18:57 UTC

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Notes on “A World Without Email”, plus my practical implementation

Peter Wildeford20 Jun 2022 15:34 UTC

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(www.pasteurscube.com)

Human survival is a policy choice

Peter Wildeford3 Jun 2022 18:53 UTC

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(www.pasteurscube.com)

The chance of accidental nuclear war has been going down

Peter Wildeford31 May 2022 14:48 UTC

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(www.pasteurscube.com)

In current EA, scalability matters

Peter Wildeford3 Mar 2022 14:42 UTC

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We’re Rethink Priorities. Ask us anything!

Peter Wildeford15 Nov 2021 16:25 UTC

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