AGI Strategies

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Jonathan Stray

Jonathan Stray

Berkeley CHAI; AI in journalism and recommender systems

Senior Scientist at the Center for Human-Compatible AI at UC Berkeley; previously editor at the AP and a builder of AI tools for newsrooms. Researches recommender systems and journalism applications of AI.

current Senior Scientist, UC Berkeley CHAI
homepage@jonathanstray

Strategy positions

Near-term harms firstendorses

Documented present harms outweigh speculative existential narratives

Argues recommender-system harms are a primary AI safety question; deployed engagement-maximizing recommenders may already be the highest-impact AI in the world.

Recommender systems are the largest deployed AI systems in the world. If we get them wrong, we are getting AI safety wrong at scale already, before any AGI shows up.
§ paperBuilding Human Values into Recommender Systems· arXiv· 2023· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

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

  • Adam Grant

    Adam Grant

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Wharton organizational psychologist

  • Anna Lauren Hoffmann

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    UW iSchool; 'data violence' theorist

  • Anton Korinek

    Anton Korinek

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    UVA economist; AI and inequality

  • Brian Merchant

    Brian Merchant

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Tech writer; 'Blood in the Machine' author

  • Clay Shirky

    Clay Shirky

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    NYU emeritus; 'Here Comes Everybody', 'Cognitive Surplus'

  • Cynthia Breazeal

    Cynthia Breazeal

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    MIT Media Lab; social robotics; founder Jibo

Record last updated 2026-04-25.