AGI Strategies

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Lukas Finnveden

Open Philanthropy; AI safety analyst

Open Philanthropy researcher whose detailed analyses of AI takeoff dynamics, training data running out, and alignment training methods have been widely cited in EA circles.

current Senior Research Analyst, Open Philanthropy
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Strategy positions

Alignment firstendorses

Solve technical alignment before capability thresholds close

Argues alignment research must trace specific failure modes in concrete detail; favours quantitative scenario analysis over generic existential framings.

Plausible scenarios for AI takeoff include software-only feedback loops where AIs do AI research. Whether this leads to alignment failure depends on details that haven't been carefully argued.
✍ blogLukas Finnveden, LessWrong· LessWrong· 2022· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

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Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Lukas Finnveden'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.