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Category: Essays

Where’s the Anti-Davos?

The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum just screams for counter-programming. The get-together, colloquially called “Davos” because it happens in a quaint little town in Switzerland, is billed as a place where “the foremost leaders from government, business, and civil society” can “confront shared challenges and drive innovations driving the future.” Considering all of […]

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I Applied For A Job At OpenAI

OpenAI is recruiting for a “Head of Preparedness.” I applied earlier today. The company describes the role as being “directly responsible leader for building and coordinating capability evaluations, threat models, and mitigations that form a coherent, rigorous, and operationally scalable safety pipeline.” Of course, that’s mostly nonsense, or at best happy but unenforceable ethics, since […]

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