Adam Jones's Blog

• Teach-swap-explain: a learning activity for course designers to create highly effective learning experiences External — 12 December 2024
• Why we run our AI safety courses External — 4 December 2024
• How Does AI Learn? A Beginner’s Guide with Examples External — 29 November 2024
• The standard W3C Gamepad API mapping for an Xbox controller — 4 November 2024
• What early career policymakers can learn from product managers: understanding people’s actual problems is key to effective policy — 1 November 2024
• AI Alignment June 2024 course retrospective External — 30 October 2024
• OpenAI’s cybersecurity is probably regulated by NIS Regulations — 25 October 2024
• Does project proposal feedback result in better final projects? External — 21 October 2024
• No time for user interviews? Learn how to use empathetic role-playing to make better product decisions. — 2 October 2024
• An easy win for UK AI safety: competition law safe harbour — 23 September 2024
• Modular AI Safety courses proposal External — 16 September 2024
• Summary of AI alignment participant user interviews External — 13 September 2024
• An easy win for UK AI safety: supporting whistleblowers — 11 September 2024
• What we didn’t cover in our June 2024 AI Alignment course (or, an accessible list of more niche alignment research agendas) External — 13 August 2024
• The AI regulator’s toolbox: A list of concrete AI governance practices — 10 August 2024
• Are cheap shaver blades any good? — 8 August 2024
• Advertising to technical people: LinkedIn, Twitter, Reddit and others compared External — 7 August 2024
• What advertising creatives work for technical people? External — 7 August 2024
• Results from testing ad adjustments External — 7 August 2024
• Diagnosing infectious diseases with CRISPR: SHERLOCK and DETECTR explained — 1 August 2024
• Reflections on my 7-day writing challenge — 23 July 2024
• How to avoid the 2 mistakes behind 89% of rejected AI alignment applications External — 22 July 2024
• What do applicants mean when they say they come from LinkedIn? External — 19 July 2024
• Our 2023 internal cybersecurity course External — 15 July 2024
• Addressing digital harms: a right of appeal is not sufficient — 15 July 2024
• AI as a corporation (or, an intro to AI safety?) — 14 July 2024
• How to fix proof of address — 13 July 2024
• Proof of address is nonsense — 12 July 2024
• Government departments should say they don't care — 11 July 2024
• Avoiding unhelpful work as a new AI governance researcher — 9 July 2024
• Asking for help — 9 July 2024
• Why AI systems should get more things wrong — 8 July 2024
• Why having a human-in-the-loop doesn't solve everything — 7 July 2024
• 7 blogs in 7 days — 7 July 2024
• What we learnt from running our AI alignment course in March 2024 External — 2 July 2024
• What is a lead cohort? External — 1 July 2024
• What we changed for the June 2024 AI alignment course External — 24 June 2024
• A thing I'd like to exist: benchmarks for train internet — 23 June 2024
• 3 articles on AI safety we’d like to exist External — 17 June 2024
• Why we work in public at BlueDot Impact External — 16 June 2024
• Why are people building AI systems? External — 25 May 2024
• How to send Keycloak emails through Google Workspace's SMTP relay — 18 May 2024
• Preventing AI oligarchies: important, neglected and tractable work — 12 May 2024
• How might AI-enabled oligarchies arise? — 11 May 2024
• Follow-up: benchmarking Next.js server vs nginx at serving a static site, now on AWS — 30 April 2024
• Benchmarking the Next.js server vs nginx at serving a static site — 29 April 2024
• No, I don’t want to fill out your contact form — 28 April 2024
• AI alignment project ideas External — 12 April 2024
• How to avoid the 4 mistakes behind 92% of rejected AI governance applications External — 5 April 2024
• Do cheap GPS trackers work? A review of the GF-07, GF-09 and GF-22. — 24 March 2024
• Can we scale human feedback for complex AI tasks? An intro to scalable oversight. External — 18 March 2024
• ai-safety.txt: Making AI vulnerability reporting easy — 17 March 2024
• What's the best Myprotein flavour? I tried 23 of them to find out. — 10 March 2024
• OHGOOD: A coordination body for compute governance — 3 March 2024
• What is AI alignment? External — 1 March 2024
• What risks does AI pose? External — 21 February 2024
• How are AI companies doing with their voluntary commitments on vulnerability reporting? — 20 February 2024