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Sophie Kim

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Hi! I’m Sophie, a gap year student at Stanford focusing on AI governance for catastrophic risk mitigation. I write a Substack, The Counterfactual—https://​​thecounterfactual.substack.com/​​ -- and earlier this year, I was ERA Fellow on the AIxBiosecurity track. This summer, I’ll be doing research at MATS, mentored by Matthew Gentzel at Longview!

How to Ac­tu­ally Spend Billions on AI Safety

Sophie Kim13 May 2026 14:18 UTC
71 points
2 comments7 min readEA link
(substack.com)

Stop Donat­ing to AI Safety Re­search*

Sophie Kim25 Apr 2026 21:25 UTC
79 points
14 comments9 min readEA link
(thecounterfactual.substack.com)

The An­thropic IPO Is Com­ing. We Aren’t Ready for It.

Sophie Kim12 Apr 2026 15:28 UTC
186 points
27 comments8 min readEA link
(thecounterfactual.substack.com)

AI Can Already Evade DNA Syn­the­sis Screen­ing. Congress’s New Bill Doesn’t Ad­dress That.

Sophie Kim30 Mar 2026 0:05 UTC
16 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(thecounterfactual.substack.com)

The Open-Weight Problem

Sophie Kim18 Mar 2026 21:36 UTC
6 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(thecounterfactual.substack.com)

LLMs Didn’t Help Novices Build Viruses. That Might Be the Wrong Ques­tion.

Sophie Kim18 Mar 2026 13:53 UTC
12 points
5 comments6 min readEA link
(thecounterfactual.substack.com)