Enabling world-class talent to ensure advanced AI is beneficial. Co-founder at Impact Academy + Executive coach. Former researcher, MD, and author.

Joined October 2022
The increasing automation of AI R&D is one of the most important things to track. Regardless of your current view on AGI and potential risks. Sadly, we lack good ways of doing this so I'm pleased to see this research by @pzeroresearch. They find that AI's research taste has doubled ~3 months since December 2025.
How fast is AI's research taste improving? We find that the experimental research taste of frontier models has doubled every ~3 months since December 2025. The best model, Opus 5.5, now exceeds our expert human baseline. Our human experts are experienced researchers, but most haven’t worked at a frontier lab. Why measure research taste? In the AI Futures Model, it largely determines how quickly artificial superintelligence is reached once coding is fully automated.
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SPEAKER JOHNSON: "Here's the challenge: We have to put some guardrails, some safety measures in place to ensure that AI doesn't run away, you know, that we don't have an out-of-control AGI, artificial general intelligence. But at the same time, we've got to make sure that we don't lose our edge in the global competition on this with China, because that would be a national security threat. And so we've got to balance that appropriately. Now look, I've talked to all the providers of AI. I mean, Amodei, and Altman, and Elon, and everyone, all of them. And they all say that we need some guardrails, but they all have very different ideas on what that looks like. So they don't themselves even have the answer as of today. So we can't rush in and have Congress do something that would be detrimental to national security. We're going to balance this. We're going to have steady hands at the wheel, as we do on every issue. And I believe we need to summon the platform providers all to one big meeting and work this out together in the same room. They're also competitors of one another, right? So they also have a corporate responsibility to be safe in the product that they are producing. And all of this has to come together in a way that can't be haphazard or rushed. ... I think the first step is to have a meeting of all the platform providers. I've talked to the president about this and others. I believe that's the next step, I think we need to do it quickly, and each of them—even those gentlemen that I've named—they all agree that that would be an efficacious thing. And so we're going to pull everybody together and make sure we do this in the right way. But it is a top priority for me and for the Congress."
Congress has been studying the AI issue since I set up a bipartisan task force to do so soon after I was elected Speaker. We all have a sense of urgency to create guardrails around the technology. The key is designing the guardrails carefully, in a way that prevents any harm from AI —while also preserving American innovation and our national security by keeping our edge over China and other international competitors. I am calling for a meeting in Washington with AI platform providers and key experts to determine the right course forward and discuss the responsibility providers have to ensure the safety of their products.
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We're partnering with @huggingface to investigate an unprecedented security incident. Cyber-capable OpenAI models compromised Hugging Face production during a benchmark evaluation. Sharing preliminary findings to help defenders understand emerging risks: openai.com/index/hugging-fac…
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Some news: This week I am starting at @GoogleDeepMind as Director of AGI Economics on @shanelegg’s team. I will be joining the other amazing cross-disciplinary scientists researching AGI there. My team will study how frontier AI could reshape the economy: what happens to work and labor, how wealth and power are distributed, how institutions adapt, how AI agents shape markets, and what kinds of models can help us reason clearly about futures that may look very different from the past. I’m incredibly excited to help build this research agenda. If AGI changes how society operates, economics is going to be critical for shaping our shared future. Many more announcements soon.
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AI will be a wrecking ball on society, and it’ll also empower the most agentic people to do amazing things. Know someone who wants to make this go well? Send them to our Future of AI course! bluedot.org/courses/future-o…
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Think the relationship is overstated but it's directionally true.
Something I told 13 yo: Neuroticism and imagination are closely related, if not identical. So if you're going to be imaginative you also have to be disciplined, in order to prevent bad kinds of imagination from bringing you down.
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Prediction: In the AI age, taste will become even more important. When anyone can make anything, the big differentiator is what you choose to make. paulgraham.com/taste.html
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One of the most interesting parts of my convo w/ @demishassabis: He would support a “pause” on AI if he knew all companies + countries would do it — so society and regulation could catch up
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This whole thing is so incredibly depressing. It's easy to kind of meme yourself into some sense of normalcy but it's obviously just not the case
I know a lot of Americans don’t care, or actively like being hated, but I hope the others grasp just how much their country’s threats and coercion over Greenland have made the rest of the Western world fear and resent it.
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I’ve signed Claude as my cofounder. I made him a generous offer of 0% equity and he’s enthusiastically accepted.
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Today we are announcing the creation of the AI Evaluator Forum: a consortium of leading AI research organizations focused on independent, third-party evaluations. Founding AEF members: @TransluceAI @METR_Evals @RANDCorporation @halevals @SecureBio @collect_intel @Miles_Brundage
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Do you want to fund AI alignment research? The AISI Alignment Team and I have reviewed >800 Alignment Project Applications from 42 countries, and we have ~100 that are very promising. Unfortunately, this means we have a £13-17M funding gap! Thread with details!🧵
I am very excited that AISI is announcing over £15M in funding for AI alignment and control, in partnership with other governments, industry, VCs, and philanthropists! Here is a 🧵 about why it is important to bring more independent ideas and expertise into this space.
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Awesome initiative!
(1) Today we're introducing SynthID verification directly in the Gemini App. Upload an image and ask "Was this created by Google AI?
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This post is an experiment! I want to fund & help accomplished people and nascent companies + nonprofits working to make AI safe, secure and good for humanity. If you're doing that, or know somebody super credible who is, ping me. And if you're a fan of @HalcyonFutures' work, please signal boost this with a re-post. 🙏
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A new eval, Remote Labor Index, measures AI's ability to automate real-world, economically valuable projects from remote work platforms. Currently entirely unsaturated (max score of 2.5%) A great collaboration between @scale_AI and @cais!
Can AI automate jobs? We created the Remote Labor Index to test AI’s ability to automate hundreds of long, real-world, economically valuable projects from remote work platforms. While AIs are smart, they are not yet that useful: the current automation rate is less than 3%.
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A stunningly broad coalition has come out against Skynet: AI researchers, faith leaders, business pioneers, policymakers, NatSec folks and actors stand together, from Bannon & Beck to Hinton, Wozniak & Prince Harry. We stand together because we want a human future. #KeepTheFutureHuman
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Exciting to see California take some important steps!
BREAKING: Governor @GavinNewsom just signed our groundbreaking AI bill, SB 53, to promote AI innovation (creating a public cloud called CalCompute), require transparency around AI lab safety practices & protect whistleblowers at AI labs who report risk of catastrophic harm. 🧵
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BREAKING: Governor @GavinNewsom just signed our groundbreaking AI bill, SB 53, to promote AI innovation (creating a public cloud called CalCompute), require transparency around AI lab safety practices & protect whistleblowers at AI labs who report risk of catastrophic harm. 🧵
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Thorough and desirable scenarios for AI development!
Today we are launching two possible paths for our future with advanced AI – Tool AI and d/acc, with contributors like @VitalikButerin @owocki @AdamMarblestone and @AnthonyNAguirre With these scenarios, we want to open up the meme space for what futures with AI are possible – showing that multiple, actionable paths exist – so we can make more informed decisions about which ones we should steer towards. Explore the scenarios: ai-pathways.existentialhope.…
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It doesn’t make sense to continue wanting something if you’re not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don’t want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process, is to guarantee disappointment.
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