Luc Brinkman — LessWrong

Stop Chasing Views: How to Reduce x-Risk as an AI Safety Content Creator

Many of the content creator fellows at plzdontkillus found my thoughts useful when I visited two weeks ago, so I’m now sharing a write-up here. Many thanks to Maggie Munroe (FLI) and Chana Messinger (80,000 Hours) for their feedback on an earlier draft. Cross-posted to EA Forum. As an x-risk...

Jul 1936

Why Even Experts Don’t Know What to Do About AI Risk

AI Safety veteran Holden Karnofsky thinks there’s a 49% chance his actions are making things worse.[1] In 2025, Jesse Clifton even stepped down as the executive director of the Center on Long-Term risk because of similar reasons. Even top AI Safety strategists don’t know what will make things better, and...

Jun 281

If Everyone Reads It, Nobody Dies - Course Launch

tl;dr: Lens Academy offers a new course introducing ASI x-risk for AI safety newcomers, centered around the book IABIED. We share our hypothesis of why IABIED seems more appreciated by AI Safety newbies than by AI Safety insiders. Lens Academy's new intro course uses IABIED to teach newbies about ASI...

Apr 2347

Co-Found Lens Academy With Me. (We have early users and funding)

Edit September 2026: We've assembled our founding team and are not currently hiring. Volunteers working on course development, marketing, and facilitating courses are welcome. tl;dr. Lens Academy is creating scalable superintelligence x-risk education with several USPs. Current team: Luc (full time founder, technical generalist) and several part time contributors. We...

Mar 3141

Startup Lessons for AI Safety

Most ideas fail. Successful startup founders don't get their first idea right. So they try things out, iterate relentlessly, and pivot when needed –[1] until they find something that works. In AI Safety, most ideas won't be impactful either. However, most people don’t know how to systematically move quickly and...

Mar 2718

Two Skillsets You Need to Launch an Impactful AI Safety Project

Your project might be failing without you even knowing it. It’s hard to save the world. If you’re launching a new AI Safety project, this sequence helps you avoid common pitfalls. Your most likely failure modes along the way: You never get started. Entrepreneurship is uncomfortable, and AI Safety is...

Mar 1857

Superintelligence Risk Education that Scales – Lens Academy

The number of people who deeply understand superintelligence risk is far too small. There's a growing pipeline of people entering AI Safety, but most of the available onboarding covers the field broadly, touching on many topics without going deep on the parts we think matter most. People come out having...

Mar 1564