Toby Ord

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BIO

Senior Researcher at Oxford University. Author — The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity.

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@tobyordoxford

Vibe and topics

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Vibe

Teaching

Teaching42%

Informing37.4%

Supportive5.1%

Hopeful4.9%

Provocative4.4%

Announcing3.9%

Devil's Advocate2.3%

Topics

Apollo & Artemis Photography

Apollo & Artemis Photography22.5%

Inference Scaling13.6%

AI Time Horizons13.5%

RL Scaling12.5%

METR Benchmarks11.8%

AI Timelines Uncertainty10.4%

Infinite Decision Theory9.6%

Effective Altruism6.2%

Top followers

#30

Sam Bowman

@sleepinyourhat

AI alignment + LLMs at Anthropic. On leave from NYU. Views not employers'. No relation to @s8mb. Into @givingwhatwecan.

#40

Jan Leike

@janleike

AI research @AnthropicAI. Previously OpenAI & DeepMind. Optimizing for a post-AGI future where humanity flourishes. Opinions aren't my employer's.

#47

Mira Murati

@miramurati

Now building @thinkymachines. Previously CTO @OpenAI

#50

Richard Socher

@RichardSocher

Building self-improving superintelligence CEO @recursive_si and @youdotcom MP @aixventuresHQ Ex: Stanford Adj Prof, Chief Scientist at Salesforce, CEO MetaMind

#53

Yejin Choi

@YejinChoinka

professor at Stanford, researcher at NVIDIA, adventurer at heart

#59

Dwarkesh Patel

@dwarkesh_sp

Host of @dwarkeshpodcast https://www.youtube.com/DwarkeshPatel https://open.spotify.com/show/4JH4tybY1zX6e5hjCwU6gF https://apple.co/3ujLQkZ

#81

Zico Kolter

@zicokolter

Professor and Head of Machine Learning Department at @CarnegieMellon. Board member @OpenAI and @Qualcomm. Chief Scientist @GraySwanAI.

#86

Wojciech Zaremba

@woj_zaremba

AI resilience at OpenAI Foundation Co-Founder of OpenAI https://woj.world

#88

Roger Grosse

@RogerGrosse

#95

Yee Whye Teh

@yeewhye

Find me @yeewhye@sigmoid.social Professor at @OxCSML, @oxfordstats and Research Director at @GoogleDeepMind. All opinions are my own.

#121

Matthew Johnson

@SingularMattrix

Researcher at Google Brain. I work on JAX (https://github.com/google/jax).

#140

Taco Cohen

@TacoCohen

Slop janitor & post-trainologer at Meta / FAIR. Into codegen, RL, equivariance. Spent time at Qualcomm, Scyfer (acquired), UvA, Deepmind, OpenAI.

#142

Jeff Clune

@jeffclune

Co-founder, Recursive. Professor, CS, U. British Columbia. CIFAR AI Chair, Vector Institute. | ML, AI, deep RL, deep learning, AI-Generating Algorithms (AI-GAs)

#152

Amanda Askell

@AmandaAskell

Philosopher & ethicist trying to make AI be good @AnthropicAI. Personal account. All opinions come from my training data.

#175

Emad

@EMostaque

Building open source AI we own Founder @ii_posts, @StabilityAI Consistent inference is possible.

#182

Leopold Aschenbrenner

@leopoldasch

http://situational-awareness.ai

#183

Riley Goodside

@goodside

Mostly screenshots of chatbots. Formerly: Google DeepMind, Scale.

#190

Ethan Mollick

@emollick

Professor @Wharton studying AI. New book, Co-Existence, coming October 20. Preorder here: https://co-existence.ai/ Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/

#216

Stephanie Chan

@scychan_brains

Staff Research Scientist at the DeepMind Institute. Societal impacts of AI + Science of AI. Views are my own.

#222

tobi lutke

@tobi

Shopify CEO by day, Dad in evening, hacker at night, Aspiring comprehensivist.

#233

rishi

@RishiBommasani

Senior Research Scholar @StanfordHAI focused on economics and governance of frontier AI Previous: Stanford CS PhD @percyliang @jurafsky, Cornell CS

#247

Shane Legg

@ShaneLegg

Chief AGI Scientist & Co-Founder, Google DeepMind Director and Managing Editor, DeepMind Institute Work: http://www.deepmind.com Personal: http://www.vetta.org

#265

David Dohan

@dmdohan

reducing perplexity & ai for science | past: reasoning o1/o3/... @openai & probabilistic programs, proteins, science & reasoning @ google brain 🧠

#272

vitalik.eth

@VitalikButerin

I choose balance. First-level balance. mi pinxe lo crino tcati https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/09/12/in-the-balance/

#312

Irwan Bello

@IrwanBello

Supercomputers & Friends, AI & Science. Past: Founding team & Research Lead at @reflection_ai, @OpenAI, Founding team @character_ai, Google Brain

#322

Marc G. Bellemare

@marcgbellemare

Modelling @ Cohere. Ex RL research lead at Google Brain, DeepMind. Textbook author. Co-founder, Reliant AI.

#336

Alex Tamkin

@AlexTamkin

machine learning, science & society @AnthropicAI | recently: Clio, Anthropic Economic Index, Claude Artifacts | prev: phd @StanfordAILab, @stanfordnlp

#349

Owain Evans

@OwainEvans_UK

Director of Truthful AI (non-profit AI safety research group) + Affiliate at UC Berkeley. Work: Emergent misalignment, subliminal learning. Prefer email to DM.

#362

Richard Ngo

@RichardMCNgo

eppur lo si può muovere

#364

Geoffrey Irving

@geoffreyirving

Cofounder and Chief Scientist at Resolution. Alignment will be solved, but not necessarily in time. Previously AISI, DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Brain, etc.

#455

Roberta Raileanu

@robertarail

Open-Endedness Team Lead and Senior Staff Research Scientist @GoogleDeepMind. Adjunct Faculty @bold_lab_ai. ex @Meta | @NYU | @Princeton | IPhO | IOAA.

#461

Andrew Trask

@iamtrask

don’t mind me… just hanging with my friends building this paper from 1968 https://tinyurl.com/unn5rh3x @openminedorg @GoogleDeepMind @OxfordUni

#462

Nat McAleese

@__nmca__

Research @AnthropicAI. Previously @OpenAI, @DeepMind. Views my own.

#498

Erik Torenberg

@eriktorenberg

General Partner @a16z. Positive-sum. Striving for a thousand year heart. Worldbuilding @mtslive @theacademysf @cosign

#501

Scott Reed

@scott_e_reed

#522

Anna Rogers

@annargrs

Associate professor @ITUkbh: LLM interpretability, generalization, AI & society. Co-editor-in-chief @ACLRollingReview. Blog: https://hackingsemantics.xyz

#563

Victoria Krakovna (in the Bay until Oct 5)

@vkrakovna

Research scientist in AI alignment at Google DeepMind. Co-founder of Future of Life Institute @FLI_org. Views are my own and do not represent GDM or FLI.

#574

Laura 🌲 ⛰️

@LauraDeming

CEO of @untillabs I enjoy helping new technologies into the Overton window of acceptable discourse

#595

Helen Toner

@hlntnr

AI, national security, China. Part of the founding team at @CSETGeorgetown (opinions my own). Author of Rising Tide on substack: http://helentoner.substack.com

#603

David Abel

@dabelcs

Scientist @GoogleDeepMind and Fellow @EdinburghUni | RL, philosophy, agency, foundations, alignment | office hours: http://tinyurl.com/dabel-mtg

#656

Ajeya Cotra

@ajeya_cotra

Helping the world prepare for powerful AI. Risk assessment @METR_evals (opinions my own). Blogs: Planned Obsolescence (AI), Good Bones (whatever's on my mind).

#676

j⧉nus

@repligate

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#677

Yo Shavit

@yonashav

ai resilience @foundationOAI. Past: @openai / @HarvardSEAS / @SchmidtFutures / @MIT_CSAIL. Tweets my own; on my head be it.

#687

Dustin Moskovitz

@moskov

#689

Markus Wulfmeier

@m_wulfmeier

Mastery-first Physical AI @NomagicAI Prev. AI & Robotics @GoogleDeepMind - PhD/Postdoc @UniOfOxford - visiting @UCBerkeley @ETH @MIT - European @ELLISforEurope

#698

Sherwin Wu

@sherwinwu

@OpenAI

#702

scott belsky

@scottbelsky

helping the creative world make ideas happen. partner @a24 / founder A24Labs; founder @Behance, bod @atlassian & MoMA, author, seed investor, product obsessive.

#730

Tao Xu

@txhf

Learning Machine at OpenAI

#732

Yaroslav Bulatov

@yaroslavvb

@southparkcommons (early OpenAI, Google Brain, Meta) https://yaroslavvb.substack.com/ https://medium.com/@yaroslavvb https://yaroslavvb.blogspot.com/

#782

Trenton Bricken

@TrentonBricken

Stochastic parrot