Thomas Larsen

Karma: 4,474

I’m broadly interested in AI strategy and want to figure out the most effective interventions to get good AI outcomes.

How to pace the US frontier

elifland, brendanhalstead, romeo, Thomas Larsen and MKodama

7 Aug 2026 17:19 UTC

94 points

1 comment21 min readLW link

(blog.aifutures.org)

Our response to Séb Krier on Plan A

MKodama and Thomas Larsen

14 Jul 2026 2:21 UTC

153 points

23 comments15 min readLW link

[AI 2040] Transparency Plan

Thomas Larsen13 Jul 2026 21:24 UTC

17 points

0 comments16 min readLW link

(ai-2040.com)

Plan A: Suggestions For Further Work

Thomas Larsen10 Jul 2026 23:02 UTC

52 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

AI 2040: Plan A

Daniel Kokotajlo, elifland, Thomas Larsen, romeo, brendanhalstead and ryan_greenblatt

9 Jul 2026 16:25 UTC

551 points

131 comments1 min readLW link

(www.ai-2040.com)

AI 2027: What Superintelligence Looks Like

Daniel Kokotajlo, Thomas Larsen, elifland, Scott Alexander, Jonas V and romeo

3 Apr 2025 16:23 UTC

700 points

223 comments41 min readLW link

(ai-2027.com)

Long-Term Future Fund Ask Us Anything (September 2023)

Linch, calebp, abergal, habryka, Thomas Larsen, LawrenceC and Lauro Langosco

31 Aug 2023 0:28 UTC

33 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Introducing the Center for AI Policy (& we’re hiring!)

Thomas Larsen28 Aug 2023 21:17 UTC

123 points

50 comments2 min readLW link

(www.aipolicy.us)

Long-Term Future Fund: April 2023 grant recommendations

abergal, calebp, Linch, habryka, Thomas Larsen and Vaniver

2 Aug 2023 7:54 UTC

81 points

3 comments50 min readLW link

Challenge: construct a Gradient Hacker

Thomas Larsen and Thomas Kwa

9 Mar 2023 2:38 UTC

42 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Wentworth and Larsen on buying time

Orpheus16, Thomas Larsen and johnswentworth

9 Jan 2023 21:31 UTC

74 points

6 comments12 min readLW link

Ways to buy time

Orpheus16, Olive Branch and Thomas Larsen

12 Nov 2022 19:31 UTC

34 points

23 comments12 min readLW link

Thomas Larsen’s Shortform

Thomas Larsen8 Nov 2022 23:34 UTC

6 points

116 comments1 min readLW link

Instead of technical research, more people should focus on buying time

Orpheus16, Olive Branch and Thomas Larsen

5 Nov 2022 20:43 UTC

101 points

45 comments14 min readLW link

Possible miracles

Orpheus16 and Thomas Larsen

9 Oct 2022 18:17 UTC

64 points

34 comments8 min readLW link

Neural Tangent Kernel Distillation

Thomas Larsen and Jeremy Gillen

5 Oct 2022 18:11 UTC

80 points

20 comments8 min readLW link

7 traps that (we think) new alignment researchers often fall into

Orpheus16 and Thomas Larsen

27 Sep 2022 23:13 UTC

180 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

Alignment Org Cheat Sheet

Orpheus16 and Thomas Larsen

20 Sep 2022 17:36 UTC

65 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

Inner Alignment via Superpowers

JamesH, Thomas Larsen and Jeremy Gillen

30 Aug 2022 20:01 UTC

37 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

(My understanding of) What Everyone in Technical Alignment is Doing and Why

Thomas Larsen and elifland

29 Aug 2022 1:23 UTC

415 points

90 comments37 min readLW link 1 review