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Algon
London, UK | algon33.ar@gmail.com
algon-33.github.io | lesswrong.com/users/algon | @Algon_33
PROFILE
Generalist project lead with a physics degree. I write for technical and non-technical audiences, manage small teams, and learn new domains fast. Two years leading the AI safety communication organisation AIsafety.info, which produced several hundred reference articles, AI safety distillations, and a chatbot.
EXPERIENCE
Project Lead — AISafety.info (Stampy) Jul 2024 – Present
AISafety.info is a non-profit research communication project (founded by Rob Miles) producing living documents on the AI safety landscape, including technical research agendas, policy, and alignment proposals.
– Led an org of 10 — writers, editors, programmers, designers, and researchers.
– Maintained and directed several hundred articles communicating AI safety concepts to a broad audience. Articles have been referenced by journalists, used in interview preparation by researchers, and serve as introductions to the field for new entrants to AI safety.
– Produced distillations of technical AI safety research, making frontier alignment work accessible to wider audiences.
– Oversaw development of an AI safety Q\&A chatbot, well-regarded by researchers in the field. Managed improvements to the RAG architecture and prompt engineering.
– Directed improvements to the Alignment Research Database, a comprehensive collection of AI safety literature cited in published research papers. Team built an MCP server enabling programmatic access for chatbots and research tools.
– Redesigned introductory article series; managed video content pipeline; handled analytics, infrastructure, and stakeholder communication.
AI Evaluation Specialist (Contractor) — Equistamp Jan 2024 – Jul 2024
– Sourced, validated, cleaned and improved high-quality evaluations for frontier models across diverse capability domains.
Freelance Research & Writing — Various Clients 2021 – 2024
– Atlas Fellowship: Authored 30-page research report on ambitious methods in education, analysing approaches that substantially outperform standard practice along axes of generality, effectiveness, cost, and scalability.
– AI Strategic Reasoning Assessment: Produced technical report on methods for detecting strategic reasoning capabilities in near-term AI systems, commissioned by an AI safety research organisation.
– Metaculus Automation: Built Python tool automating prediction submission for a top-ranked Metaculus superforecaster by extracting and replicating community probability distributions.
– Provided research advisory and strategic support to independent professionals on technical projects.
EDUCATION
MPhys Physics with Theoretical Physics — First Class Honours — University of Manchester 2015 – 2019
– Thesis: demonstrated that environmental noise can produce a constant-factor speedup in basic quantum computation operations (polaron transform applied to a Landau-Zener transition).
SELECTED OUTPUTS
– AISafety.info: A site containing several hundred articles covering the AI safety research landscape, from introductory overviews to technical distillations. Articles I was a main author on include:
– “What is the Natural Abstractions Hypothesis?”
– “What are Inductive Biases”?
– “How do fictional stories illustrate AI misalignment?”
– Alignment Research Database & MCP Server: Comprehensive database of AI safety literature, cited in published research. MCP server enables programmatic access for chatbots and research tools.
– AI Safety Q\&A Chatbot: RAG-based chatbot drawing on the full article library and database to answer questions about AI alignment research.
– Blog & writing: algon-33.github.io.
KEY COMPETENCIES
Project & team management • Technical writing & distillation • AI safety research landscape • Research communication • Stakeholder management • Grant writing • Python • Data analysis • Physics & mathematical modelling