Currently I am based in London, in the United Kingdom!

I've been doing the MATS extension with Sid Black (UK AISI) and David Africa and I'm about to start working with Daniel Tan, and joining CLR for their Summer Research Fellowship in London.

I've also stepped back from being directly involved with the day to day operations of AI Safety South Africa, and am now in a strategic role to ensure the rapid growth and strategic priorities of the organisation. We recently ran the Cooperative AI Research Fellowship, in Cape Town, South Africa which I think went great. We are planning to launch a major scale up of operations and the creation of a beautiful shared working space, and hopefully will open up opportunities for visiting researchers to join us to do AI safety work from around the world.

I am also planning to start a PhD at Imperial College London with Francesco Belardinelli and Murray Shanahan soon, and am excited to pursue research relating to model's conception of self as part of this.

I do a ton of meditation and recently have been trying to do more writing and strategic thinking about how to make AI go well. I'd love to engage people who are thinking deeply about this stuff and be directed to additional resources in this area as well. I am thinking about pivoting into grantmaking in the near future, and would love to hear about ideas for things to fund which sound exciting.

I also do weekly calls to help mentor people from the community and add value where I can. Sign up here if you're interested.