Contributors
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Aaron Labaree has published work in Slate, Literary Review, and elsewhere. He lives in New York.
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Abhishaike Mahajan has spent his career trying to use computation to improve human health. He blogs at owlposting.com and tweets at x.com/owl_posting?.
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Abi Olvera is a writer and researcher. She is the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists AI Fellow and has served as a U.S. diplomat for a decade. She is the author of a scholarship strategy book for low income students. She is a TEDx speaker and has served on boards of organizations working on election reform, road fatalities, global poverty, and tech policy.
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Adam Kroetsch writes Policy and Practice, a blog about biomedical innovation policy and FDA regulation. Previously, he spent over a decade at the FDA’s drug center. More recently, he worked at a health policy think tank and as a digital health policy researcher and consultant.
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Adam Marblestone is a board member of the Lean Focused Research Organization, which is developing Lean software, and is co-founder and CEO of its parent nonprofit, Convergent Research.
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Adam Mastroianni is an experimental psychologist. He writes Experimental History.
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Adam Salisbury is a senior researcher at GiveWell, a nonprofit that works predominantly in global health.
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Adrian Tchaikovsky is a British science-fiction and fantasy writer known for a wide-variety of work including the Children of Time, Final Architecture, Dogs of War, Tyrant Philosophers, and Shadows of the Apt series, as well as standalone books such as Elder Race, Doors of Eden, Spiderlight, and many others. Children of Time and its series has won the Arthur C Clarke and BSFA awards, and his other works have won the British Fantasy, British Science Fiction and Sidewise Awards.
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Aella is an independent sexologist. More of her writing can be found at Knowingless.
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Afra Wang is the writer of Concurrent, a newsletter about the collisions and parallels between China and Silicon Valley—through the lenses of AI, technology, society, and culture.
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Agnes Callard is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. Her new book Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life (Norton, 2025) argues that if you’re not doing philosophy, you’re making a mistake.
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Agustina Paglayan is a political science and public policy professor at the University of California, San Diego, and a nonresident fellow at the Center for Global Development.
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Ajeya Cotra is a Senior Advisor at Open Philanthropy, where she focuses on how the world can anticipate and prepare for extremely advanced AI systems.
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Alan Levinovitz is a freelance journalist and professor of philosophy and religion at James Madison University. He typically writes about the intersection of culture, science, and medicine — but his Substack Book Glory is dedicated entirely to books as enchanted objects.
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Alec Nevala-Lee is the author of Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller and Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction. He is currently at work on Collisions, a biography of the physicist Luis W. Alvarez, which will be published by W. W. Norton in the summer of 2025.
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Alec Stapp is a co-founder of the Institute for Progress (IFP), a think tank focused on innovation policy.
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Alon Levy is a Fellow in the Transportation and Land Use program of the NYU Marron Institute. They write Pedestrian Observations, a blog about public transit.
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Amalia Miller is the Georgia S. Bankard Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia. Her current research examines topics related to gender and family economics as well as healthcare technology and data privacy.
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Andre Popovitch is a programmer and writer. He writes at chadnauseam.com
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Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla is the Chairman of the Board and co-founder of Shrimp Welfare Project (SWP), an organisation dedicated to improving the welfare of farmed shrimp. Prior to SWP, he worked for more than 15 years in investment banking and private equity for firms such as Morgan Stanley and Aermont Capital in the UK, Spain, Portugal, Mexico and Qatar.
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Andrew Herscowitz is the Executive Director of ODI Global, Washington, DC. He previously served as the Chief Development Officer at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation and also as the Coordinator of the U.S. Government’s Power Africa initiative under the Obama and Trump Administrations.
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Andrew Miller holds a Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins and is the co-author of the book The End of Driving (2025). Previously at Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs, he now writes the Changing Lanes newsletter on mobility innovation.
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Annie Rauwerda is the creator of Depths of Wikipedia.
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Arvind Narayanan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University and the director of the Center for Information Technology Policy. He is a co-author of the book AI Snake Oil and a newsletter of the same name which is read by 50,000 researchers, policy makers, journalists, and AI enthusiasts.
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Aurelia Song is the co-founder of Nectome and EON, where she works on human preservation and brain uploading, respectively. She’s based in Portland, Oregon.
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Avital Balwit is Communications Lead at Anthropic, an AI lab. She has worked in grantmaking in AI safety and biosecurity, and was a research scholar at Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute. She is also an Emergent Ventures winner and was selected for the Rhodes Scholarship.
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Awais Aftab is clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University. His first book, “Conversations in Critical Psychiatry” (Oxford University Press, 2024) is an edited volume of interviews. He writes online on Psychiatry at the Margins.
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Ben Williamson is the co-founder of Maternal Health Initiative. He is passionate about hills, goats, and ambitious ventures to build a better world. A summary of his other work and projects can be found at bcswilliamson.com.
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Beth Barnes leads ARC Evals. She designs ARC’s evaluations of generative AI models and oversees a growing technical team carrying them out. Beth previously worked on alignment at DeepMind and at OpenAI.
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Bob Fischer is a Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University and serves on the boards of the Insect Welfare Research Society and the Arthropoda Foundation. His books include Weighing Animal Welfare: Comparing Well-being Across Species and Animal Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction.
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Brian Potter is a senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress (IFP) and writes the Construction Physics newsletter.
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Carl Robichaud co-leads Longview Philanthropy’s programme on nuclear weapons and existential risk. For more than a decade, Carl led grantmaking in nuclear security at the Carnegie Corporation of New York. He previously worked with The Century Foundation and the Global Security Institute, where his extensive research spanned arms control, international security policy, and nonproliferation.
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Casey Handmer is the founder of Terraform Industries, a company building synthetic natural gas from sunlight and air. He has worked on optics, gravitation, magnetic machinery, astrophysics, GPS, planetary mapping, and scrolls.
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Cate Hall leads Astera, a private foundation committed to helping humanity navigate the transition to a technologically advanced future. Her book, with her husband Sasha Chapin, which will be published by Harper Business in June 2026.
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Celine Nguyen Celine Nguyen is a software designer and writer from California. Her criticism has appeared in ArtReview, The Atlantic, The Believer, and the Cleveland Review of Books. She writes the newsletter personal canon about literature, design and technology.
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Charles Yang is the founder of the Center for Industrial Strategy, which is building a bipartisan coalition to support U.S. industrial policy. Previously, he spent two years at the Department of Energy as an AI and Supply Chain Policy advisor and was a ML engineer at an AI hardware startup in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Christopher Leslie Brown teaches history at Columbia University. He is the author of Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism, which was awarded the 2007 Frederick Douglass Book Prize.
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Clara Collier is the editor in chief of Asterisk Magazine.
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Claude S. Fischer is Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at U.C. Berkeley, author of Made in America: A Social History of American Culture and Character, and blogs at Made in America.
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Constance Li is the co-founder of Hive, a nonprofit focused on improving farmed animal welfare through community and collaboration. She is also a board certified physician and holds a degree in Animal Sciences.
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D. Graham Burnett is a professor of History and History of Science at Princeton University. He is the co-editor, with Justin E.H. Smith, of Scenes of Attention: Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses (Columbia University Press) out this Fall. Together with collaborators in the “Friends of Attention” coalition, Burnett co-authored Twelve Theses on Attention (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022). He is associated with the non-profit, Brooklyn-based Strother School of Radical Attention, which he helped create. dgrahamburnett.net
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Dan Schwarz worked at Google from 2014 to 2022. He then served as CTO of Metaculus, and is now the co-founder and CEO of FutureSearch. He writes about forecasting and AI on X at @dschwarz26.
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Dan Williams is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Sussex and an Associate Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) at the University of Cambridge
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Daniel Treisman is a professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and co-author with Sergei Guriev of Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century.
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Dave Guarino is a software engineer and (reluctant) policy wonk who works on intervening in complex systems, with a specific focus on applying new technology leverage to social safety net and public benefits programs. He also writes daveguarino.substack.com with an aim of externalizing practical knowledge.
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David Skarbek is the Michael Targoff Professor of Political Economy at Brown University. He is the author of The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System and The Puzzle of Prison Order: Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World.
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Deena Mousa is the Chief of Staff for the Global Health and Wellbeing portfolio at Open Philanthropy, and serves as a grantmaker and researcher. She is also a freelance journalist covering global health and development.
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Devon Zuegel is a former software engineer turned real estate developer. She is building a town inspired by Chautauqua and Las Catalinas. It will be a place designed to be welcoming to multigenerational families that are looking for lifelong learning, a car-light lifestyle, neighborly connections, and a healthy lifestyle in touch with nature.
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Dietrich Vollrath is a professor and chair of the department of economics at the University of Houston. His work focuses on economic growth. He blogs at growthecon.com.
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Dynomight writes about science and dispenses life advice at dynomight.net.
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Edwin Kite is an associate professor at the University of Chicago and a participating scientist on the Mars “Curiosity” rover.
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Elle Hardy is a journalist and author of Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity is Taking Over the World and is currently writing a history of Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church.
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois is a writer and an AI evaluation specialist at Elicit. He blogs at Hopeful Monsters and is based in Montreal.
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Fred Kaplan is the “War Stories” columnist for Slate and the author of six books, including The Wizards of Armageddon, The Insurgents (a Pulitzer Prize finalist) and The Bomb.
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George Stiffman is the author of Broken Cuisine, a forthcoming book exploring how Chinese tofus can be incorporated into western cooking. Previously, he lived in China, working in traditional tofu production and Buddhist restaurant kitchens.
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Georgia Ray is a biodefense researcher and fish enthusiast. She blogs at eukaryotewritesblog.com.
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Greg Justice is a member of the Samotsvety forecasting group. He has worked as an analyst and project manager in the healthcare industry, and is completing his MBA at Chicago Booth.
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Harry Law is a researcher at the University of Cambridge. He writes about history, culture, and technology at www.learningfromexamples.com
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Henrik Karlsson (@phokarlsson) writes the blog Escaping Flatland.
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Jack Despain Zhou is the cofounder of the Center for Educational Progress, a nonprofit focused on reorienting education around a culture of excellence. He can be found on Substack as Tracing Woodgrains or on Twitter as @tracewoodgrains.
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Jake Eaton is the managing editor at Asterisk.
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Jamie Wahls has been published in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, and Nature (kinda). He was nominated for the Nebula award, received George RR Martin's "Sense of Wonder" fellowship, and is a graduate of the notorious 2019 Clarion Class, the "killer bees." His ultraminimalist website can be found at jamiewahls.com, and you can follow him on Twitter at @JamieWahls.
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Jan Sramek is the founder and CEO of California Forever.
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Jared Leibowich is a forecaster for Samotsvety and the Swift Centre. He placed 1st out of 7,000 for the In the News 2021 Good Judgment competition and is currently ranked 1st for the In the News 2022 competition. He can be reached at jleibowich@gmail.com
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Jason Crawford is the founder of The Roots of Progress, where he writes and speaks about the history of technology and the philosophy of progress. Previously, he spent 18 years as a software engineer, engineering manager, and startup founder.
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Jeffrey Ding is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. He writes the ChinAI newsletter, a weekly translation of writings from Chinese thinkers on China's AI landscape.
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Jeremiah Johnson is the founder of the Center for New Liberalism and host of The New Liberal Podcast. He writes at Infinite Scroll.
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Jesse Smith is a contractor with a background in carpentry and HVAC. He co-owns Tay River Builders, a home remodeling company, and Willard Brothers Woodcutters, an exotic lumber store and furniture shop. His company has performed over 2,000 energy retrofits.
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John Iceland is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography at Penn State University.
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John Yasuda is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, specializing in Chinese politics, bureaucratic politics, and comparative political economy. His most recent book is On Feeding the Masses: An Anatomy of Regulatory Failure in China.
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Jolie Gan curates The Distressed Scientists Department, a science communication initiative spanning writing, exhibitions, books, and art. She has a background in neuroscience and politics.
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Jonathan Mann is a forecaster for Samotsvety, a Good Judgment Superforecaster, and an INFER All-Star. He has worked as a Data Scientist, a Product Manager, and is currently a Cybersecurity Architect. He lives in New York City and can be reached at jonathan.mann@nyu.edu.
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Jordan Hampton is a McKenzie Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne and a veterinarian with broad research interests in wildlife management, animal welfare, toxicology, public health, and ethics.
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Jordan Schneider is the creator of the ChinaTalk podcast and newsletter.
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Juan Cambeiro is a Superforecaster. He placed first in multiple forecasting tournaments, including the IARPA FOCUS 2.0 COVID Forecasting Tournament, and is a biosciences analyst at Metaculus. He is also a graduate student in epidemiology at Columbia University and can be reached at juancambeiro1015@gmail.com.
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Justin Sandefur is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. His research spans the economics of education and health, among other fields.
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Karson Elmgren is a Research Analyst at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), where he works on the AI Assessment team.
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Karthik Tadepalli is an economics PhD student at UC Berkeley, where his research focuses on technology and growth in developing countries. He blogs at Beyond Imitation.
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Kathleen Finlinson is cofounder and Head of Strategy at Eleos AI. She holds graduate degrees in math and applied math. She previously worked as an AI forecasting researcher at the Open Philanthropy Project, a machine learning researcher at lead removal startup BlueConduit, and a strategic advisor for AI policymakers.
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Kati Devaney is neuroscientist and meditation practitioner. She is a co-founder of The Berkeley Alembic, a science advisor at Jhourney, and a researcher at the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics.
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Kelsey Piper is a senior writer at Vox’s Future Perfect. She writes about emerging technologies, global development, pandemics, effective altruism, and what it’ll take to make it safely to the 22nd century.
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Kevin Esvelt is an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab, where he leads the Sculpting Evolution Group in studying how ecosystems evolve and advancing biotechnology safely.
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Kevin Frazier is the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law and the co-host of the Scaling Laws podcast.
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Kevin Hawickhorst is a Research Fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation.
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Kurtis Lockhart is Founder & Executive Director of the Africa Urban Lab, a think-do tank at the African School of Economics-Zanzibar focused on rapid urbanization across Africa. Previously, Kurtis was Executive Director and Head of Research at the Charter Cities Institute in Washington, DC.
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Kyle Fish works at Anthropic on research and strategy related to model welfare, consciousness, and moral status.
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Kyra Dempsey is a Seattle-based aviation writer who publishes accident and incident breakdowns for professional and lay audiences under the name Admiral Cloudberg.
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Lauren Gilbert is a research fellow at Open Philanthropy. Her work focuses on finding new areas for highly impactful grantmaking in global health and development.
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Lawrence Chan is an AI safety researcher working on model evaluations and interpretability.
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Leah Libresco Sargeant is the author of three books, most recently The Dignity of Dependence. She is a former curriculum developer for The Center for Applied Rationality and currently works on family policy in DC. She runs the substack Other Feminisms.
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Louis Evans is an emergent property of several dozen teracells. He is named after his great-grandfather, who survived colon cancer. His writing has appeared in Vice, Nature: Futures, Grist, and more, and is forthcoming from Reactor.
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Lydia You is a journalist who has written for The San Francisco Standard, Barron’s, and The Argonaut. She currently works in consumer AI startups.
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Lyman Stone is the Director of Research for the population consulting firm Demographic Intelligence.
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Lynette Bye is a journalist and Tarbell Fellow covering AI tech and governance.
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Matt Clancy is a research fellow at Open Philanthropy. He writes a living literature review on academic research about innovation at New Things Under the Sun.
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Matt Reynolds is a senior writer at WIRED magazine, where he writes about food, climate change and biodiversity. His first book, How to Feed the Planet Without Destroying It was published in 2021.
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Matthew Jordan is a PhD student at Princeton University. He is the founder of Hidden Rivers, a walking tour and history education company based in Toronto. He previously served as Executive Director of the Interact Fellowship.
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Meghan Boilard is an artist and writer based in Boston, MA. Her newsletter, Off-Topic, explores visual culture and the human experience. Her work can be read at meghanboilard.substack.com.
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Michael D. Gordin is the Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University. His books include A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table and Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Twitter @GordinMichael
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Michael Skuhersky holds a PhD in neuroscience from MIT and is currently founding a nonprofit research institute focused on brain simulation.
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Mike Hinge is a Senior Economist at ALLFED — a non profit that researches and prepares for severe and neglected food shocks. His work primarily concerns how countries can prepare for and respond to disasters that disrupt over 10% of global food output, and the economic, political and social implications of such disasters.
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Molly Hickman is a computer scientist at the Forecasting Research Institute. She previously worked at the MITRE Corporation on test and evaluation for several crowdsourced intelligence projects, and now forecasts herself. She is a member of the Samotsvety forecasting group and has been a ‘Pro’ on INFER.
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Molly Huang is an internet addict, mother of two, and writer of Chinese Doomscroll, where she bring you the latest trending posts on Chinese social media every day.
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Monica Westin is a writer and librarian who has previously worked at university libraries in the US and UK as well as at the Internet Archive and Google, and who will soon be working for Cambridge University Press & Assessment. These are her own views and don’t reflect those of her employers, past or present.
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Nadia Asparouhova (@nayafia) is a writer and researcher. She is the author of Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software (Stripe Press).
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Nicholas Schiefer is a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, where he spends most of his time building evaluations of large language models with the eventual aim of understanding whether they could pose catastrophic risks.
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Oliver Kim is a Research Fellow at Open Philanthropy. He blogs about global development and economic history at Global-Developments.org.
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Oshan Jarow is a writer focusing on the social and contemplative sciences, covering topics from advanced meditation to anti-poverty policy. Formerly, he was a journalist with Vox’s Future Perfect, co-founded the Library of Economic Possibility, and hosted the Musing Mind Podcast.
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Ozy Brennan is a researcher at the Shrimp Welfare Project and a former researcher at Wild-Animal Suffering Research. They blog at Thing of Things.
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Peter Westwick is professor of the practice in history and thematic option at the University of Southern California. He is the author of several books on the history of science and technology, the latest of which is Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft.
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Prabhu L. Pingali is a professor at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and in the division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. He is a foreign member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and the founding director of the Tata-Cornell Institute.
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Pradyumna Prasad authors the Bretton Goods substack and hosts the accompanying podcast. He is a first year undergraduate at the National University of Singapore.
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Priyanka Pulla is a Bengaluru-based journalist who reports on science policy and health. her work has appeared in Mint, The Wire Science, The Quint, The BMJ, Science Magazine, Nature News and more.
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Ranil Dissanayake is a senior fellow in the Sustainable Development Finance and Europe programmes at the Center for Global Development. His work focuses on the future of development cooperation, economic development in poor countries, and bridging the gap between research and policymaking.
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Reed Schwartz is an MPhil candidate in intellectual history at the University of Cambridge. His other work can be found at reedschwartz.com and @ReedSchwartzSF.
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Ricki Heicklen is an independent generalist based in New York City. She has worked as a quantitative trader, data scientist, and teacher. She blogs at bayesshammai.substack.com.
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Rob Davidoff is a Pittsburgh-based mechanical and manufacturing engineer specializing in metal 3D printing. He has always loved trains.
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Rob Long is the co-founder and executive director of Eleos AI, a research organization investigating AI sentience and wellbeing. He has a PhD in Philosophy from NYU and previously worked at the Future of Humanity Institute and the Center for AI Safety.
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Robert Rosenbaum is a co-lead of the PRO Initiative. He has spent his career at the intersection of international development, empirical economic research and health innovation, most recently at USAID's Development Innovation Ventures.
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Robert Yaman previously led operations at the cultivated meat company Mission Barns, and recently started Innovate Animal Ag, a nonprofit that supports the development and adoption of new technologies that improve animal health and welfare. He blogs at robertyaman.com and can be followed on Twitter.
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Robin Wordsworth is Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at Harvard University. His research focuses on the climates of rocky planets, habitability and astrobiology.
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Ryan Briggs is an Associate Professor at the University of Guelph, based in the Department of Political Science and the Guelph Institute of Development Studies. His research focuses on international development, political economy, and quantitative methods.
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Ryan Burge is a professor of political science at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Graphs about Religion.
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Saarthak Gupta is a researcher with a background in economics. He previously lived in Mumbai while working in the global health and development sector.
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Sam Bowman is a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, where he leads a safety research team, and an Associate Professor at NYU, where he leads a lab that works on evaluating and, more recently, aligning language models.
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Sam Kriss is a writer. He lives in London and blogs at Numb at the Lodge.
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Santi Ruiz is the Senior Editor at the Institute for Progress, a non-partisan think tank focused on innovation policy. He writes Statecraft, an interview series with policymakers about how things get done.
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Sarah Constantin holds a PhD in mathematics from Yale and blogs at Rough Diamonds.
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Sarah Eustis-Guthrie is the co-founder of Maternal Health Initiative. She writes at Beyond Denial.
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Scott Alexander is a writer and psychiatrist based in Oakland, California. He blogs at astralcodexten.substack.com.
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Scott Kaplan is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the United States Naval Academy. His research focuses on consumer behavior with a particular emphasis on food and health policy.
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Sheon Han is a writer and programmer based in Palo Alto, CA. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, WIRED, The Atlantic, The Point, Quanta Magazine, and elsewhere. You can find his other work at sheonhan.net and on Twitter @sheonhan.
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Stephan J. Guyenet , PhD is a former researcher in the fields of obesity and neuroscience and the current director of Red Pen Reviews. His book The Hungry Brain was named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly and called “essential” by The New York Times Book Review.
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Stuart Buck is the Executive Director of the Good Science Project. His newsletter is the Good Science Project and he can be found on Twitter.
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Stuart Ritchie is a senior lecturer in psychiatry at King’s College London. He is the author of a book, Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science, and blogs about metascience at stuartritchie.substack.com.
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Susan Hough is a research seismologist, a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, and a science writer. Recent books include The Great Quake Debate (University of Washington Press) and Predicting the Unpredictable (Princeton University Press).
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Tamay Besiroglu is a Research Scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and AI lab and Associate Director of Epoch. Tamay focuses on the intersection of economics and computing.
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Tianyu M. Fang is a writer and researcher living in San Francisco. He can be found online at tianyufang.net.
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Timothy B. Lee is a journalist who writes the newsletter Understanding AI. Previously he was on staff at the Washington Post, Vox.com, and Ars Technica. He has a master's degree in computer science from Princeton.
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Todd Moss is executive director of the Energy for Growth Hub. His substack is Eat More Electrons.
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Tom Ough is a journalist and researcher. He is writing a book about humanity’s efforts to address
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Witold Więcek is a statistician and a research consultant in global health and development. He is a recipient of an Emergent Ventures grant for his work on COVID, Consulting Director at the Development Innovation Lab at University of Chicago, and an advisor to 1Day Sooner.
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Xander Balwit is a writer and wildland firefighter from Portland, Oregon. Unremittingly interested in what kind of future will befall us, Xander explores the plausible, dismal, and hopeful in her work.
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Zvi Mowshowitz writes at Don't Worry About the Vase.