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  • Asterisk Magazine

    A magazine dedicated to clear writing and clear thinking, published from inside the worlds shaping the Bay Area. Subscribe in print: https://store.asteriskmag.com/.

  • Leah Libresco Sargeant

    I'm the author of The Dignity of Dependence, as a well as Arriving at Amen and Building the Benedict Option. My substack, Other Feminisms, is about how to advocate for women as women in a world that treats us like defective men.

  • Karson Elmgren

    Research Manager at the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy. AI policy person, language enthusiast, rock climber, China nerd, chronically relapsed Wikipedia addict, etc. Logogram is my professional Substack; Idiolect is just for fun.

  • Justin Curl

    AI researcher turned lawyer trying to make AI go well. Prev: Harvard Law, Schwarzman Scholar, Microsoft Research, Princeton CS

  • Corbin Duncan

    Staff writer at The Economist. Previously in China, Harvard

  • afra

    writer of Concurrent newsletter; host of podcast CyberPink I write about Silicon Valley and China

  • Asterisk Magazine

    A print and digital journal of writing on how to make sense of the world.

  • Daniel Kokotajlo

    Was a philosophy PhD student, left to work at AI Impacts, then Center on Long-Term Risk, then OpenAI. Quit OpenAI due to losing confidence that it would behave responsibly around the time of AGI. Now executive director of the AI Futures Project.

  • Clara Collier

    Editor in Chief of Asterisk Magazine

  • Abhishaike Mahajan

    i write about bio/ml at owlposting.com! currently doing ml at noetik, previously did ml at dyno therapeutics

  • Karthik Tadepalli

    I write about global development, technological progress and AI. The other me writes fiction and criticism.

  • Nat Purser

    senior policy advocate @publicknowledge

  • Alex Trembath

    Executive Director at the Breakthrough Institute. Ecomodernist. Promethean Hamiltonian Schumpeterian meliorist.

  • Zilan Qian

    Writing about US-China AI, to one day not write about US-China AI.

  • The New Critic

    The Young Americans | thenewcritic.com

  • Brian Hanlon

    Co-founder and CEO of California YIMBY

  • Elizabeth Van Nostrand

    What if we understood more things? Freelance Research Analyst @ North Sea Analytics

  • Dan Bouk

    I am writing a book about the NYC subway and a hopeful historical tale about outsiders who helped put the trains back on track.

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