About me

I’m interested in ideas around progress, effective altruism, and AI. Most of my writing lives on this website.

Currently I’m a researcher at Google DeepMind. Before that I was a Research Fellow at Forethought, a grantmaker at Longview Philanthropy, and a Research Scholar at Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute. I studied philosophy at Cambridge.

Until recently I hosted a couple of podcasts: ForeCast, about AGI and how to productively worry about it; and Hear This Idea, about whatever my friend Luca and I were interested in that week.

I read, tweet, listen to music, practice BJJ, and play chess badly.

In past lives, I was a Roots of Progress writing fellow, interned with Charity Entrepreneurship, helped make videos for science communicators, did some documentary filmmaking, and took rowing too seriously.

Here are some photos of me.

Contact and feedback

Email me at moc.esuohroomnullnif@olleh (you’ll need to type that manually). You can also find me on Twitter, Goodreads, GitHub, Spotify, and rateyourmusic.

Please give me anonymous feedback about anything at all.