Description: Joe Carlsmith's website.
I’m a writer, researcher, and philosopher. I work as a senior research analyst at Open Philanthropy , where I focus on existential risk from advanced artificial intelligence. I also write independently about various topics in philosophy and futurism, and I recently completed a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Oxford.
Much of my work is about trying to help us orient wisely towards humanity’s long-term future. I see this work as fitting a loose logical structure, with questions about meta-ethics and rationality at the foundation, feeding into questions about ethics (and especially about effective altruism), which motivate concern for the long-term future , which motivates attention to advanced artificial intelligence in particular – and a further strand of my work (what I’m calling the “ crazy train ” strand) grapples wi
You can learn more about me here . My CV is here . My twitter is @jkcarlsmith . My email is joseph [dot] k [dot] carlsmith @ gmail [dot] com .