Alex is good to work with, can kick a ball and captain a football team pretty bloody well, and has often-good thoughts on safety. If you want to join an ambitious and pragmatic AI safety team, you should get in touch :)

Thinking Machines exists to pursue a differentiated view of the future of AI. Specifically, we care about those branches of the tech tree that are involved with maintaining the best of human participation in the new world in which we find ourselves. It is our belief that this is the most important thing we can do with our time and talents. To us, this mission is both moral and opportunistic. We believe this is a moral imperative, because we think humans are important, and the best future is one where humans and AI work together deeply and functionally, not where humans are alienated from our work and lives by mass replacement. We also think this is practical and economic: AI that is built for active human participation produces better work, builds a more resilient world, and is a more compelling version of AI safety than systems optimized to operate apart from us. The narrative of mass automation and disempowerment that dominates the frontier of AI today can feel like a black hole. We, tiny astronauts, are dragged towards it—a fearsome maw amidst an expanse of glimmering potential. In that future, machine intelligence is built to act on its own and to replace us; we are relegated to observers and consumers of a progress we can no longer touch. A small circle owns the systems, and everyone else is left behind, watching from afar. That road may produce enormous, concentrated material abundance; it will certainly create a world in which most people have no real part. At Thinking Machines, we remember that the universe of possible futures is large, and understand we have not yet crossed an event horizon. There is yet another way.