Justin is Chief Strategist and Co-Founder of Convergence. He is an AI safety advisor to Lionheart Ventures. He has worked with existential risk research since 2009, including working with MIRI, CFAR, EA Global, and Founders Fund. He has done work in EA strategy, fundraising, networking, teaching, cognitive enhancement, and AI safety research. He has an MS degree in computer science and BS degrees in computer science, mathematics, and physics.
Publications
Research Agenda
AI Clarity: An Initial Research Agenda
Content
Apr 16, 2024
13
minute read
Research Agenda
AI Clarity: An Initial Research Agenda
Content
Apr 16, 2024
13
minute read
Research Agenda
AI Clarity: An Initial Research Agenda
Content
Apr 16, 2024
13
minute read
Technical AI Safety
Information-Theoretic Boxing of Superintelligences
Content
Nov 30, 2023
9
minute read
Technical AI Safety
Information-Theoretic Boxing of Superintelligences
Content
Nov 30, 2023
9
minute read
Technical AI Safety
Information-Theoretic Boxing of Superintelligences
Content
Nov 30, 2023
9
minute read
Value Modeling
Aligning AI by optimizing for "wisdom"
Content
Jun 27, 2023
14
minute read
Value Modeling
Aligning AI by optimizing for "wisdom"
Content
Jun 27, 2023
14
minute read
Value Modeling
Aligning AI by optimizing for "wisdom"
Content
Jun 27, 2023
14
minute read
Mitigating Existential Risks
Improving the safety of AI evals
Content
Jun 18, 2023
8
minute read
Mitigating Existential Risks
Improving the safety of AI evals
Content
Jun 18, 2023
8
minute read
Mitigating Existential Risks
Improving the safety of AI evals
Content
Jun 18, 2023
8
minute read
Technical AI Safety
The risk-reward tradeoff of interpretability research
Content
Jun 5, 2023
7
minute read
Technical AI Safety
The risk-reward tradeoff of interpretability research
Content
Jun 5, 2023
7
minute read
Technical AI Safety
The risk-reward tradeoff of interpretability research
Content
Jun 5, 2023
7
minute read
Mitigating Existential Risks
Keep humans in the loop
Content
Apr 19, 2023
11
minute read
Mitigating Existential Risks
Keep humans in the loop
Content
Apr 19, 2023
11
minute read
Mitigating Existential Risks
Keep humans in the loop
Content
Apr 19, 2023
11
minute read
Value Modeling
Updating Utility Functions
Content
May 9, 2022
9
minute read
Value Modeling
Updating Utility Functions
Content
May 9, 2022
9
minute read
Value Modeling
Updating Utility Functions
Content
May 9, 2022
9
minute read
Technical AI Safety
Goodhart's Law Causal Diagrams
Content
Apr 11, 2022
7
minute read
Technical AI Safety
Goodhart's Law Causal Diagrams
Content
Apr 11, 2022
7
minute read
Technical AI Safety
Goodhart's Law Causal Diagrams
Content
Apr 11, 2022
7
minute read
Strategy Research Tooling
Four components of strategy research
Content
Jan 31, 2021
6
minute read
Strategy Research Tooling
Four components of strategy research
Content
Jan 31, 2021
6
minute read
Strategy Research Tooling
Four components of strategy research
Content
Jan 31, 2021
6
minute read
Strategy Research Tooling
Evaluating expertise: a clear box model
Content
Oct 15, 2020
6
minute read
Strategy Research Tooling
Evaluating expertise: a clear box model
Content
Oct 15, 2020
6
minute read
Strategy Research Tooling
Evaluating expertise: a clear box model
Content
Oct 15, 2020
6
minute read
Strategy Research Tooling
Improving the future by influencing actors' benevolence, intelligence, and power
Content
Jul 20, 2020
21
minute read
Strategy Research Tooling
Improving the future by influencing actors' benevolence, intelligence, and power
Content
Jul 20, 2020
21
minute read
Strategy Research Tooling
Improving the future by influencing actors' benevolence, intelligence, and power
Content
Jul 20, 2020
21
minute read
Downside Risks
Good and bad ways to think about downside risks
Content
Jun 11, 2020
13
minute read
Downside Risks
Good and bad ways to think about downside risks
Content
Jun 11, 2020
13
minute read
Downside Risks
Good and bad ways to think about downside risks
Content
Jun 11, 2020
13
minute read
Risk Modeling
Causal diagrams of the paths to existential catastrophe
Content
Mar 1, 2020
15
minute read
Risk Modeling
Causal diagrams of the paths to existential catastrophe
Content
Mar 1, 2020
15
minute read
Risk Modeling
Causal diagrams of the paths to existential catastrophe
Content
Mar 1, 2020
15
minute read
Downside Risks
Memetic downside risks: How ideas can evolve and cause harm
Content
Feb 26, 2020
18
minute read
Downside Risks
Memetic downside risks: How ideas can evolve and cause harm
Content
Feb 26, 2020
18
minute read
Downside Risks
Memetic downside risks: How ideas can evolve and cause harm
Content
Feb 26, 2020
18
minute read
Information Hazards
Information hazards: Why you should care and what you can do
Content
Feb 24, 2020
18
minute read
Information Hazards
Information hazards: Why you should care and what you can do
Content
Feb 24, 2020
18
minute read
Information Hazards
Information hazards: Why you should care and what you can do
Content
Feb 24, 2020
18
minute read
Information Hazards
Mapping downside risks and information hazards
Content
Feb 20, 2020
11
minute read
Information Hazards
Mapping downside risks and information hazards
Content
Feb 20, 2020
11
minute read
Information Hazards
Mapping downside risks and information hazards
Content
Feb 20, 2020
11
minute read
Value Modeling
Using vector fields to visualise preferences and make them consistent
Content
Jan 29, 2020
14
minute read
Value Modeling
Using vector fields to visualise preferences and make them consistent
Content
Jan 29, 2020
14
minute read
Value Modeling
Using vector fields to visualise preferences and make them consistent
Content
Jan 29, 2020
14
minute read
Mitigating Existential Risks
AI alignment concepts: philosophical breakers, stoppers, and distorters
Content
Jan 25, 2020
4
minute read
Mitigating Existential Risks
AI alignment concepts: philosophical breakers, stoppers, and distorters
Content
Jan 25, 2020
4
minute read
Mitigating Existential Risks
AI alignment concepts: philosophical breakers, stoppers, and distorters
Content
Jan 25, 2020
4
minute read
Mitigating Existential Risks
Safety regulators: A tool for mitigating technological risk
Content
Jan 21, 2020
4
minute read
Mitigating Existential Risks
Safety regulators: A tool for mitigating technological risk
Content
Jan 21, 2020
4
minute read
Mitigating Existential Risks
Safety regulators: A tool for mitigating technological risk
Content
Jan 21, 2020
4
minute read
Strategy Research Tooling
The 'sprinting between oases' strategy
Content
Jan 16, 2020
2
minute read
Strategy Research Tooling
The 'sprinting between oases' strategy
Content
Jan 16, 2020
2
minute read
Strategy Research Tooling
The 'sprinting between oases' strategy
Content
Jan 16, 2020
2
minute read
Strategy Research Tooling
Moloch and the Pareto optimal frontier
Content
Jan 14, 2020
2
minute read
Strategy Research Tooling
Moloch and the Pareto optimal frontier
Content
Jan 14, 2020
2
minute read
Strategy Research Tooling
Moloch and the Pareto optimal frontier
Content
Jan 14, 2020
2
minute read
Holistic Strategy Research
A case for strategy research: what it is and why we need more of it
Content
Jun 20, 2019
24
minute read
Holistic Strategy Research
A case for strategy research: what it is and why we need more of it
Content
Jun 20, 2019
24
minute read
Holistic Strategy Research
A case for strategy research: what it is and why we need more of it
Content
Jun 20, 2019
24
minute read
Risk Modeling
State Space of X-Risk Trajectories
Content
Feb 6, 2020
4
minute read
Risk Modeling
State Space of X-Risk Trajectories
Content
Feb 6, 2020
4
minute read
Risk Modeling
State Space of X-Risk Trajectories
Content
Feb 6, 2020
4
minute read