bio

Adam Jones is an AI safety practitioner working to make the transition to advanced AI systems go well. He does many things in service of this: software engineering, governance research, program management, field strategy, and more.

At BlueDot Impact, he leads AI safety talent programs. This includes the large-scale AI Safety Fundamentals: Alignment course, as well as intensive bootcamps for in-demand roles like the AI Safety Operations Bootcamp.

On the side, he advises the UK Government's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) on AI safety, and is a trustee of Raise, a charity that encourages students to think about effective giving.

Outside of work, he enjoys making things! This includes writing blog articles (mainly about AI safety) and building popular open-source tools: his AWS Email Simulator has 900,000+ downloads, his YouTube thumbnail-hiding browser extension serves 40,000+ weekly users, and his Airtable MCP server has spurred over 45 forks. Finally, he also contributes media to Wikimedia Commons, with his work appearing in textbooks, academic papers, and YouTube videos with millions of views.

When not making new things, he enjoys co-operative board games, video games, sunny weather, and playing capture the flag on Hampstead Heath.

projects

• AWS Email Simulator: enables devs to test emails without AWS credentials, and work productively without internet. Downloaded over 900,000 times.
• YouTube thumbnail hider: browser extension with >40,000 weekly active users and 100+ 5-star reviews.
• Serverless offline watcher: developer tool that enables extending the Serverless framework with arbitrary file or directory hooks. Downloaded over 310,000 times.
• A TypeScript Airtable library, which makes building apps on top of Airtable way easier.
• Apply for a postal vote service: fully-working GOV.UK-style service. I think this is the first ever properly electronic version of this form.
• London cycle parking: find cycle parking quickly in London.
• ISA tracking tool: compatible with 4 brokers for read and write operations. Has reliably tracked my ISA performance every day for the last 5 years.
• PDF scanner: add a scanned look to documents, more convincingly than existing services.
• RSA SecurID library: reverse-engineered security token generator, derived from a C library. Also available as an easy-to-use browser extension.
• TypeScript i18n library: A lightweight, flexible, and fully type-safe translation framework for websites, native apps and servers.
• Google Doc to LaTeX: Converter that makes writing LaTeX a piece of cake.
• Discord reminder bot template: send reminders from GitHub. 2 min setup.
• Day visualiser: ever felt you needed more existential dread in your life? See how fast the day is slipping away from you.
• Media: I publish free-cultural works on places like Wikimedia Commons (where I also helped build the Android app). They've ended up in US state forestry manuals, South African national textbooks, papers on language models, and YouTube videos with millions of views.

Most of these have their source code availabile on my GitHub. You can contribute to support their development.

working with me

The following make up a How to work with me manual / User Guide, which coworkers or AI virtual collaborators might find helpful:

• Preferences for communicating with me
• How I give reviews