AGI Strategies

person

Daniel Filan

AXRP podcast host; alignment researcher

Host of AXRP (the AI X-risk Research Podcast); long-form interviews with alignment researchers. Previously a PhD student at the Center for Human-Compatible AI under Stuart Russell.

current Host, AXRP

Strategy positions

Alignment firstendorses

Solve technical alignment before capability thresholds close

Argues alignment research is technical, tractable, and best advanced through careful engagement with specific research agendas; uses AXRP to surface those agendas in detail.

What I want from AI safety research is the same thing I want from any other research: clear problem statements, clear progress, and a community that holds itself to the standards of the rest of science.
podcastAXRP, AI X-risk Research Podcast· AXRP· 2024· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Daniel Filan's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

  • Aaron Courville

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Université de Montréal; Deep Learning textbook co-author

  • Adam Jermyn

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Anthropic; previously astrophysics

  • Adam Kalai

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Microsoft Research; AI fairness and safety

  • Agnes Callard

    Agnes Callard

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    University of Chicago philosopher; aspiration theorist

  • Ajeya Cotra

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Open Philanthropy researcher; 'biological anchors' forecaster

  • Alan Turing

    Alan Turing

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Founder of theoretical computer science (1912–1954)

Record last updated 2026-04-25.