person
Julia Galef
Rationalist author; former CFAR president
Rationalist writer and former president of the Center for Applied Rationality. Author of The Scout Mindset. Has written measured takes on AI risk that mostly agree with the non-extreme end of the AI safety community.
current Host, Rationally Speaking Podcast
past Co-founder and former President, Center for Applied Rationality
Strategy positions
Existential primacymixed
Extinction/disempowerment risk overrides ordinary cost-benefitTakes AI risk seriously but is public about calibration concerns and the risk of unfalsifiable framings.
Taking AI risk seriously and being epistemically calibrated are not in tension.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.