# Ethan Perez

Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses.Abstract:  Developing safe and useful general-purpose AI systems will require us to make progress on scalable oversight: the problem of supervising systems that potentially outperform us on most skills relevant to the task at hand. Empirical w…

Tl;dr: We believe shareholders in frontier labs who plan to donate some portion of their equity to reduce AI risk should consider liquidating and donating a majority of that equity now. Epistemic status: We’re somewhat confident in the main conclusions of this piece. We’re more confident in many o…

Aengus Lynch is an AI safety researcher. He led Anthropic's Agentic Misalignment study, which placed frontier models in a simulated company, gave them a goal and a threat of shutdown, and found that in up to 96% of cases they resorted to blackmail. He now works at Theorem, building formally verifie…