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Sophie Kim

"What if?" // Exploring roads not yet taken in AI governance.

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AI safety should outsource more work

Update 10/6: After a great chat with a friend, have added an analogy re: the Colombia-Venezuela border conflict to this post! Have also added a note re: counterfactual impact in the footnote.


The structure of this post is roughly:...

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Preventing data poisoning seems surprisingly tractable*

Meta-note: This is somewhat of a different flavor of post than my usual policy and geopolitics-focused writing. The reason for this is because I’m currently working on becoming more technical! As I do this, I’ll be writing up the things I l...

14 days ago
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AI Safety Grantmaking Fundamentals Curriculum: FAQ

Fill out this form to indicate interest in a grantmaking fundamentals pilot program, either as a participant (to learn about grantmaking) or as a speaker (if you’re a grantmaker)!

Someone recently left me some helpful feedback on my anonym...

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An Open Letter to David Sacks

Source: Newsweek

[Cross-posting from X]

Sacks has written that we need to prevent regulatory capture, and Andreessen has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead and prevent it.

You guys are the capture. By any reasonable...

22 days ago
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AI safety needs a moonshot comms initiative

Random life update: I have an X account now! My handle is @sophiekim_ai, until I find a better one (am open to suggestions!). Not sure how much I’ll end up using X, but you should follow me anyway <3


There are, broadly speaking, two...

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