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 have users and funding. Looking for a cofounder who's either a nontechnical generalist or a technical generalist. hello world

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Misaligned superintelligence might end humanity. The number of people who understand this deeply enough to act on it is far too small.

Lens Academy exists to change that. We're building scalable AI Safety education focused on what we think matters most: the case for existential risk from superintelligence, why alignment is hard, and how to think strategically about what to work on. Not a survey of all possible AI risks, but the part that's most likely to cause human extinction, taught in a way that hopefully actually sticks.

We do this through 1-on-1 AI tutoring, active learning, and measured outcomes. The whole platform is designed to scale: under $10 per student, volunteer facilitators, automated operations.

We're looking for a co-founder.

You can be a technical generalist or a nontechnical generalist.

What you'll do at Lens Academy

Being a co-founder means choosing from a buffet of work. Here's what needs doing at Lens:

(You're not expected to do or be great at all of these!)

Strategy & Product thinking. Deciding what to build and what to ignore. Understanding what students and navigators (our group facilitators) need. Product, especially nonprofit product, is pretty neglected in AI Safety (in my eyes), so there are loads of impactful things waiting to be built beyond our core education platform.

Software Development, full stack. You don't need to be a senior developer already. I care more that you use AI tools well (e.g. try to juggle several Claude Code instances and sometimes max out your Claude Max subscription -- in which case we'll get you a second one) and that you can learn quickly from the senior developers who advise us. Stack: Python backend, React (TypeScript) frontend, Supabase (PostgreSQL). A lot of what we do is custom-built.

Design. UX/UI. Mostly design taste; we don't have a ton of time to run a lot of user interviews and experiments, though some of those too.

Marketing and growth. Positioning, messaging, figuring out how to get Lens in front of the right people. Figuring out how ...

Pooja M

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