ThomasW

Karma: 3,684

AI governance/grantmaking. Formerly at the Center for AI Safety and Yale EA organizer.

Get In The Van

ThomasW21 Jan 2022 16:49 UTC

225 points

16 comments7 min readEA link

Introducing the ML Safety Scholars Program

ThomasW4 May 2022 13:14 UTC

156 points

42 comments3 min readEA link

Yale EA’s Fellowship Application Scores were not Predictive of Eventual Engagement

ThomasW28 Jan 2021 2:50 UTC

148 points

26 comments8 min readEA link

You Don’t Need To Justify Everything

ThomasW12 Jun 2022 18:36 UTC

139 points

11 comments3 min readEA link

Announcing the Introduction to ML Safety Course

ThomasW6 Aug 2022 2:50 UTC

136 points

4 comments7 min readEA link

A Bird’s Eye View of the ML Field [Pragmatic AI Safety #2]

ThomasW9 May 2022 17:15 UTC

97 points

2 comments36 min readEA link

Cover story on EA in Time magazine

ThomasW10 Aug 2022 15:26 UTC

94 points

19 comments1 min readEA link

(time.com)

Look Out The Window

ThomasW12 May 2022 21:16 UTC

74 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

[$20K In Prizes] AI Safety Arguments Competition

ThomasW26 Apr 2022 16:21 UTC

71 points

121 comments3 min readEA link

Introduction to Pragmatic AI Safety [Pragmatic AI Safety #1]

ThomasW9 May 2022 17:02 UTC

68 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

ML Safety Scholars Summer 2022 Retrospective

ThomasW1 Nov 2022 3:09 UTC

56 points

2 comments21 min readEA link

Complex Systems for AI Safety [Pragmatic AI Safety #3]

ThomasW24 May 2022 0:04 UTC

49 points

6 comments21 min readEA link

“A Creepy Feeling”: Nixon’s Decision to Disavow Biological Weapons

ThomasW30 Sep 2022 15:17 UTC

48 points

3 comments11 min readEA link

$20K in Bounties for AI Safety Public Materials

ThomasW5 Aug 2022 2:57 UTC

45 points

11 comments6 min readEA link

Why Planning Events Early Can Be Important

ThomasW20 Oct 2021 19:18 UTC

44 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

Open Problems in AI X-Risk [PAIS #5]

ThomasW10 Jun 2022 2:22 UTC

44 points

1 comment36 min readEA link

Why Undergrads Should Take History Classes

ThomasW7 Nov 2021 14:25 UTC

44 points

12 comments3 min readEA link

Is EA an advanced, planning, strategically-aware power-seeking misaligned mesa-optimizer?

ThomasW16 Dec 2022 17:07 UTC

39 points

5 comments7 min readEA link

EA Housing Slack

ThomasW14 May 2022 20:16 UTC

38 points

8 comments2 min readEA link

The Place Where We Survived

ThomasW13 Apr 2022 6:08 UTC

38 points

2 comments2 min readEA link