Joe Carlsmith's Substack
Joe CarlsmithPhilosophy, futurism, and other topics
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Video and transcript of talk on writing AI constitutions
This is the video and transcript of a talk I gave at Yale Law School in March 2026. The slides are also available here. Transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and brevity. I work at Anthropic but I am speaking only for myself and no...
On restraining AI development for the sake of safety
Podcast version (read by the author) here, or search for “Joe Carlsmith Audio” on your podcast app.
This is the tenth essay in a series I’m calling “How do we solve the alignment problem?”. I’m hoping that the individual essays can be read...
Building AIs that do human-like philosophy
Audio version (read by the author) here, or search for “Joe Carlsmith Audio” in your podcast app.
This is the ninth essay in a series I’m calling “How do we solve the alignment problem?”. I’m hoping that the individual essays can be read f...
Video and transcript of talk on human-like-ness in AI safety
(This is the video and transcript of a talk I gave at Constellation in December 2025; I also gave a shorter version at the 2025 FAR AI workshop in San Diego. The slides are also available here, and the talk is on YouTube here. The main cont...
How human-like do safe AI motivations need to be?
Podcast version (read by the author) here, or search for “Joe Carlsmith Audio” on your podcast app.
This is the eighth essay in a series I’m calling “How do we solve the alignment problem?”. I’m hoping that the individual essays can be rea...
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