Rob Wiblin

Integrated into a whole.

And Emily really does operate in more of like an integrated way where like I'm doing stuff and I know she like needs to know the answer and is going to do something with it, which is like...

very cool and like very like novel for me as like a way to work.

And it's something that I always thought I would want.

Um, and indeed it's like really, really great.

And I think she's like an, she's an extremely like caring and thoughtful manager for me.

Who's like really good at like eliciting work out of me.

And like, I noticed that like I work more than I did right before I went on sabbatical and it feels less hard.

So, you know, that's just like a sign that like things are, are working.

Yeah, so...

I'm talking to, besides OpenPhil, which is still a top candidate, I'm talking to two technical research orgs about potentially finding a fit there.

One is Redwood Research.

The other is Meter.

And Redwood Research works on basically futurism-inspired technical AI safety research.

And they're best known for pioneering the AI control agenda.

And meter, I think of as trying to be like the world's early warning system for intelligence explosion.

It's like they're measuring like all the different measures we want to be tracking to see if we're on the cusp of AIs like rapidly accelerating AI R&D or acquiring other capabilities that let them take over.

Both of these missions are very close to my heart.

They're both narrower than OpenPhil, where I could just, if I wanted, just dip my toes in absolutely everything that might help with making AI go well.

But then in exchange, they would let me go deep in a way that I think would probably be more satisfying for me, all else equal.