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There are a lot of posts here, on quite different topics. This site is fairly friendly for AI agents to browse, so one way to find what's relevant to you is to paste this into your AI assistant of choice:
Browse https://adamjones.me/blog/ and the posts linked from it. Based on what you know about me, suggest 3–5 posts that are most relevant to me, with a sentence on why for each. Effective Patterns for Advanced MCP Usage external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 17 July 2026 Thing I want to exist: a good intro to effective giving highvol A lower-priority post: either lower-effort than my usual writing, or reference content that most subscribers won't care about.
— 16 July 2026 What is the Balanced Diet Meal (DBML) on Virgin Atlantic? highvol A lower-priority post: either lower-effort than my usual writing, or reference content that most subscribers won't care about.
— 14 July 2026 Suddenly becoming vegetarian, and maybe even vegan??? — 14 July 2026 Run better job interviews by viewing them as measurement tools — 13 July 2026 Interview questions that find high agency people — 13 July 2026 Do structured interviews actually work? — 13 July 2026 CLAUDE.md Considered Harmful — 12 July 2026 Introducing: 'highvol'-tagged blog posts — 10 July 2026 Trying German vegan food: REWE schnitzel, REWE mini Frikadellen, GREENFORCE Mini-Frika and Rügenwalder bratwurst highvol A lower-priority post: either lower-effort than my usual writing, or reference content that most subscribers won't care about.
— 9 July 2026 What working at Palantir was actually like — 27 June 2026 Announcing... AdamCon 2026! — 21 June 2026 A guide to building useful AI tools for AI safety — 8 June 2026 Good MCP servers are designed for composition — 7 June 2026 I'm hiring: Software Engineer, RL Data at Anthropic — 3 June 2026 How we contain Claude across products external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 25 May 2026 Local, real-time text-to-speech: compare Supertonic 2's 10 voices highvol A lower-priority post: either lower-effort than my usual writing, or reference content that most subscribers won't care about.
— 17 April 2026 Running LLMs Locally in 2026: Local models got ~2.8x faster in a year — 16 April 2026 What's the best dictation app? I tried 21 Wispr Flow alternatives to find out. — 15 April 2026 How to set up the Slack MCP server with a custom client highvol A lower-priority post: either lower-effort than my usual writing, or reference content that most subscribers won't care about.
— 14 April 2026 Working at Anthropic FAQs — 11 April 2026 What is the Low Calorie Meal (LCML) on United Airlines? highvol A lower-priority post: either lower-effort than my usual writing, or reference content that most subscribers won't care about.
— 7 April 2026 How a coalition of democracies solves AGI's biggest risks — 21 March 2026 UBI doesn't solve AI power concentration — 15 March 2026 Open source doesn't solve AI power concentration — 15 March 2026 How AGI could kill US democracy — 15 March 2026 Give AI companies something to aim for: The case for beneficial capability evals external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 10 January 2026 Langfuse Context: All things MCP with Adam Jones (Tech Lead at Anthropic) external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 6 January 2026 MCP Connect with Anthropic, Zoopla & Alpic | London edition external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 19 December 2025 Code Execution with MCP: Fix Tool Token Bloat (Adam Jones, Anthropic) external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 12 December 2025 Code execution with MCP: Building more efficient agents external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 4 November 2025 The Model Context Protocol: Connecting AI to Everything - Adam Jones, Anthropic external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 3 November 2025 An AI safety plan that might work: an international coalition governing AGI — 15 September 2025 What should the UK be doing to make AGI go well? — 15 August 2025 Announcing... AdamCon 2025! — 18 July 2025 Overcoming problems with compute thresholds for AI regulation — 30 June 2025 AI Model Thresholds: How Governments Can Identify Frontier AI Systems — 30 June 2025 5 ways to develop an AI safety plan or field strategy external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 29 June 2025 Quantitative models of AI-driven bioterrorism and lab leak biorisk — 25 June 2025 What makes a good AI safety plan? external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 20 June 2025 Key paths, plans and strategies to AI safety success external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 19 June 2025 How you can get more value from me reviewing your work — 18 June 2025 Preferences for communicating with me — 18 June 2025 LinkedIn Ads: can you get more efficient marketing by overbudgeting and holding your manual bid the same? external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 17 June 2025 What is customer due diligence in AI safety? external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 13 June 2025 Export ALL Your WhatsApp Chats from Android to Your Computer! external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 25 May 2025 What might AGI look like, concretely? — 21 May 2025 Why I disagree with Yann LeCun on whether LLMs could scale to AGI — 11 May 2025 300,000 people are directly creating training data for AI — 21 April 2025 What does Yann LeCun think about AGI? A summary of his talk, "Mathematical Obstacles on the Way to Human-Level AI" — 5 April 2025 Major UK banks are training their customers to fall for scams — 4 April 2025 Running LLMs Locally in 2025: Speed tests on M2 Pro + 16 GB RAM — 2 April 2025 A rough plan for AI alignment assuming short timelines — 31 March 2025 YouTube series: How to contribute to the BlueDot Impact repo external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 30 March 2025 How to set up PostHog for a Bubble single-page application, with proper pageview tracking highvol A lower-priority post: either lower-effort than my usual writing, or reference content that most subscribers won't care about.
— 24 March 2025 AI safety content you could create — 6 January 2025 Policymakers don't have access to paywalled articles — 5 January 2025 Alignment Is Not All You Need: Other Problems in AI Safety — 2 January 2025 The post-AGI purpose problem — 1 January 2025 Why product managers are uniquely suited for tech policy roles — 31 December 2024 The beginners guide to investing (2025 UK edition) — 25 December 2024 Setting up OpenWrt on the DSL-AC68U for 1 Gig speeds highvol A lower-priority post: either lower-effort than my usual writing, or reference content that most subscribers won't care about.
— 22 December 2024 Teach-swap-explain: a learning activity for course designers to create highly effective learning experiences external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 12 December 2024 Why we run our AI safety courses external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 4 December 2024 How Does AI Learn? A Beginner’s Guide with Examples external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 29 November 2024 The standard W3C Gamepad API mapping for an Xbox controller highvol A lower-priority post: either lower-effort than my usual writing, or reference content that most subscribers won't care about.
— 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 Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 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 Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 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 Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 16 September 2024 Summary of AI alignment participant user interviews external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 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 Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 13 August 2024 The AI regulator's toolbox: A list of concrete AI governance practices — 10 August 2024 Are cheap shaver blades any good? highvol A lower-priority post: either lower-effort than my usual writing, or reference content that most subscribers won't care about.
— 8 August 2024 Advertising to technical people: LinkedIn, Twitter, Reddit and others compared external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 7 August 2024 What advertising creatives work for technical people? external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 7 August 2024 Results from testing ad adjustments external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 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 Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 22 July 2024 What do applicants mean when they say they come from LinkedIn? external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 19 July 2024 Our 2023 internal cybersecurity course external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 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 me for help — 9 July 2024 Preventing overreliance: The case for deliberate AI errors in human-in-the-loop systems — 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 Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 2 July 2024 What is a lead cohort? external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 1 July 2024 What we changed for the June 2024 AI alignment course external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 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 Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 17 June 2024 Why we work in public at BlueDot Impact external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 16 June 2024 Why are people building AI systems? external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 25 May 2024 How to send Keycloak emails through Google Workspace's SMTP relay highvol A lower-priority post: either lower-effort than my usual writing, or reference content that most subscribers won't care about.
— 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 highvol A lower-priority post: either lower-effort than my usual writing, or reference content that most subscribers won't care about.
— 30 April 2024 Benchmarking the Next.js server vs nginx at serving a static site highvol A lower-priority post: either lower-effort than my usual writing, or reference content that most subscribers won't care about.
— 29 April 2024 No, I don’t want to fill out your contact form — 28 April 2024 AI alignment project ideas external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 12 April 2024 How to avoid the 4 mistakes behind 92% of rejected AI governance applications external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 5 April 2024 Do cheap GPS trackers work? A review of the GF-07, GF-09 and GF-22. highvol A lower-priority post: either lower-effort than my usual writing, or reference content that most subscribers won't care about.
— 24 March 2024 Can we scale human feedback for complex AI tasks? An intro to scalable oversight. external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 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 Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 1 March 2024 What risks does AI pose? external Published elsewhere, not on this site.
— 21 February 2024 How are AI companies doing with their voluntary commitments on vulnerability reporting? — 20 February 2024