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(Podcast version, read by the author, here, or search for "Joe Carlsmith Audio" on your podcast app. This is the tenth essay in a series I’m calling “How do we solve the alignment problem?”. I’m hoping that the individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see...
Audio version (read by the author) here, or search for "Joe Carlsmith Audio" in your podcast app. This is the ninth essay in a series I’m calling “How do we solve the alignment problem?”. I’m hoping that the individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see...
(This is the video and transcript of a talk I gave at Constellation in December 2025; I also gave a shorter version at the 2025 FAR AI workshop in San Diego. The slides are also available here. The main content of the talk is based on this recent essay. I...
(Audio version (read by the author) here, or search for "Joe Carlsmith Audio" on your podcast app. This is the eighth essay in a series I’m calling “How do we solve the alignment problem?”. I’m hoping that the individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see...
(Audio version, read by the author, here, or search for "Joe Carlsmith Audio" on your podcast app.) Last Friday was my last day at Open Philanthropy. I’ll be starting a new role at Anthropic in mid-November, helping with the design of Claude’s character/constitution/spec. This post reflects on my time at...
(Podcast version here (read by the author), or search for "Joe Carlsmith Audio" on your podcast app. This is the seventh essay in a series I’m calling “How do we solve the alignment problem?”. I’m hoping that the individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see...
(This is the video and transcript of talk I gave at the UT Austin AI and Human Objectives Initiative in September 2025. The slides are also available here. The main content of the talk is based on this recent essay.) Talk Hi, everyone. Thank you for coming. I'm honored to...