AGI Strategies

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Sayash Kapoor

Princeton PhD; AI Snake Oil co-author

Princeton computer scientist and co-author with Arvind Narayanan of AI Snake Oil. Argues frontier AI evaluations are often methodologically unsound and that most deployment failure is local and boring.

current PhD candidate, Princeton University

Strategy positions

Evals-drivenmixed

Capability/risk evals gate deployment; evals are the load-bearing artefact

Pushes for rigor in AI evaluation; critiques common eval methodology as misleading about generalisation.

Leakage and overfitting in AI benchmarks have produced a whole generation of irreproducible capability claims.
blogAI Snake Oil blog· AI Snake Oil· 2024· loose paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

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

  • Aleksander Mądry

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    MIT; ex-OpenAI head of preparedness

  • Alex Meinke

    Alex Meinke

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Apollo Research; deceptive alignment evaluations

  • Ali Rahimi

    Ali Rahimi

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Google Brain ML researcher; 'Alchemy' speech

  • Anna Rogers

    Anna Rogers

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    IT University of Copenhagen; LLM benchmarking critique

  • Arati Prabhakar

    Arati Prabhakar

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    White House OSTP director (2022–2025)

  • Beth Barnes

    Beth Barnes

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Founder of METR; dangerous capability evaluations

Record last updated 2026-04-24.