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Founder & Director @ Technical Alignment Research Accelerator

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Co-Founder & Director (AI Safety - Australia & New Zealand)
Advisory Board (GWWC)
Head of Marketing (Spark Wave)
Advisory Board (RESULTS International - Australia)

Creating Superintelligence without a worldwide referendum is ethically unjustifiable. Until a consensus is reached on whether to bring...

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Apply to be a Safety Engineer at Lockheed Martin!

Are you passionate about ensuring the safety and reliability of the world’s most lethal and cutting-edge weaponry? Does the idea of creating technology and then working out its impacts excite you? Do you thrive in dynamic environments where innovation meets rigorous safety standards? If so, you might want to consider joining the team at Lockheed Martin (LM), global leaders in advanced weapon systems development! Position overview and background: As a Safety Engineer specializing in advanced weaponry systems, you will play a critical role in ensuring we pass the checks and balances we’ve helped Federal Governments develop. You will collaborate very closely with multidisciplinary teams of engineers, scientists, and analysts to assess, mitigate, and manage risks associated with our most innovative products (however we expect any capabilities insights you discover along the way will be kept from your colleagues). You might be a good fit if you: * Thrive on rigorously testing SOTA lethal weaponry, to ensure their safety and compliance. * Enjoy working closely with PR & Comms - as needed you will be asked to appear on various podcasts and give presentations to the weapons Safety community, whom we work very closely with. * Have experience in organizations with a flat hierarchy. For example, our CEO works extremely closely with the board. * Have industry connections. We maintain close ties with our independent auditors, many of whom used to work at LM! * Can predict with 100% accuracy that you won’t ever be interested in moving into different areas of the company. We hire the smartest and most conscientious talent specifically for our Safety teams, and assume they’ll never want to move into weapons capabilities advancement. Annual Salary (USD) Multiply the not-for-profit equivalent by 7X. Join Us: Apply here by June 16, 2026 (after which it will probably be too late).

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yanni kyriacos

Message

Founder & Director @ Technical Alignment Research Accelerator

Previously

Co-Founder & Director (AI Safety - Australia & New Zealand)
Advisory Board (GWWC)
Head of Marketing (Spark Wave)
Advisory Board (RESULTS International - Australia)

Creating Superintelligence without a worldwide referendum is ethically unjustifiable. Until a consensus is reached on whether to bring...

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Widening AI Safety's talent pipeline by meeting people where they are

Summary The AI safety field has a pipeline problem: many skilled engineers and researchers are locked out of full‑time overseas fellowships. Our answer is the Technical Alignment Research Accelerator (TARA) — a 14‑week, part‑time program designed for talented professionals and students who can’t put their careers or studies on hold...

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Apply to be a TA for TARA

AI Safety - Australia & New Zealand (AIS ANZ) has launched TARA, its first technical course, and is seeking a Teaching Assistant (TA) for the inaugural cohort. TARA (Technical Alignment Research Accelerator) is a free 14-week course based on ARENA's curriculum, running March-May 2025 in Australia & New Zealand. Key...

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It is time to start war gaming for AGI

In this episode of the Making Sense podcast with Sam Harris, Barton Gellman from The Brennan Center For Justice discusses how he "organized five nonpartisan tabletop exercises premised on an authoritarian candidate winning the presidency to test the resilience of democratic institutions". "The 175 participants across five exercises were Republicans,...

Oct 17, 20244

2/3 Aussie & NZ AI Safety folk often or sometimes feel lonely or disconnected (and 16 other barriers to impact)

I did what I think is the largest piece of research on current and aspiring AI safety folk in Australia & New Zealand. I wanted to understand their career barriers so that I could then optimize my organization's tactics to remove them. Caveats * I am not a trained social...

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How have analogous Industries solved Interested > Trained > Employed bottlenecks?

It seems like one of the biggest problems* in AI Safety is that it is ridiculously hard to get good training (i.e. MATS is ridiculously competitive now) and employed (samesies). Has anyone look across other categories (e.g. potential other sciences) to see how this problem has been solved? I assume...

May 30, 20244

If you're an AI Safety movement builder consider asking your members these questions in an interview

I've been doing interviews with aspiring members of the Australian & New Zealand AIS community recently (about 35 so far) and I've arrived at the following set of questions (steps 1 - 3) as being pretty effective for understanding their challenges (and then turning into insights for program ideation). Steps...

May 27, 20244

What would stop you from paying for an LLM?

Take an extreme case; Sam Altman turns around tomorrow and says "We're racing to AGI, I'm not going to worry about Safety at all." Would that stop you from throwing him $20 a month? (I currently pay for Gemini)

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Apply to be a Safety Engineer at Lockheed Martin!

Widening AI Safety's talent pipeline by meeting people where they are

What would stop you from paying for an LLM?

Who is testing AI Safety public outreach messaging?

yanni kyriacos

Widening AI Safety's talent pipeline by meeting people where they are

Apply to be a TA for TARA

It is time to start war gaming for AGI

2/3 Aussie & NZ AI Safety folk often or sometimes feel lonely or disconnected (and 16 other barriers to impact)

How have analogous Industries solved Interested > Trained > Employed bottlenecks?

If you're an AI Safety movement builder consider asking your members these questions in an interview

What would stop you from paying for an LLM?

Apply to be a Safety Engineer at Lockheed Martin!

Widening AI Safety's talent pipeline by meeting people where they are

What would stop you from paying for an LLM?

Who is testing AI Safety public outreach messaging?

Widening AI Safety's talent pipeline by meeting people where they are

Apply to be a TA for TARA

It is time to start war gaming for AGI

2/3 Aussie & NZ AI Safety folk often or sometimes feel lonely or disconnected (and 16 other barriers to impact)

How have analogous Industries solved Interested > Trained > Employed bottlenecks?

If you're an AI Safety movement builder consider asking your members these questions in an interview

What would stop you from paying for an LLM?