AGI Strategies

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Tom Everitt

Google DeepMind staff research scientist; first PhD thesis on safe AGI

DeepMind safety researcher whose 2018 thesis 'Towards Safe Artificial General Intelligence' was the first PhD thesis on the topic. Works on causal foundations for safe AGI.

current Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
homepage@tom4everitt

Strategy positions

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Solve technical alignment before capability thresholds close

Develops causal-graphical-model frameworks for analysing AGI safety. One of the foundational academic contributors to the safety research agenda.

“Done right, AGI can be an incredibly powerful tool enabling breakthroughs to transform our everyday lives. We need to be having discussions about these big questions as early as possible.”
articleTom Everitt, DeepMind· tomeveritt.se· 2023· direct quote

Closest strategy neighbours

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Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Tom Everitt'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

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    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

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    Founder of theoretical computer science (1912–1954)

Record last updated 2026-04-25.