Reflections on UK AI Safety Summit👇

1/ People agree way more than expected. National ministers, AI lab leaders, safety researchers all rallied on infrastructure hardening, continuous evals, global coordination.

Views were nuanced; Twitter is a disservice to complex discussion. 2/ Many were surprised by the subsequent summits announced in Korea & France. This essentially bootstraps AI dialogue between gov'ts—it’s brilliant.

With AI race dynamics mirroring nuclear, no global coordination = no positive future. This felt like a promising inflection point.

In the past year, I’ve talked to many bright, curious, ambitious people who believed they couldn’t do research. That was me, not long ago.

Here I share my improved understanding in hopes of offering a more empowering model of what research entails:

kanjun.me/writing/resear… Research is simply a continuation of something we already naturally do: learning.

Learning happens when you understand something that someone else already understands.

Research happens when you understand something that nobody else understands yet.

Reflections on Miami so far👇

1/ This city makes me feel shameless. I can wear anything, dance on the street, wear nothing, shout at the top of my lungs, and nobody will blink an eye. This is liberating! 2/ SF sells efficiency, but Miami sells entertainment. The connection to consumer trends & what’s hot & what will sell feels reminiscent of LA.

By contrast, SF focuses on optimizing inefficiencies in consumers’ lives, which can be shortsighted.