Work
Writing and editing since 2019
Articles, reports, papers, and essays. The CV has the formal version.
Things I wrote
Reports
Threads for Palisade Research
Threads and figures, written with the researchers.
Articles for Nebius Science
I read new research and wrote about what it actually found.
ICML 2026: Papers That Matter
Standout papers from Seoul, sorted into five research categories. Co-written with Arseniy Sokolov.
Read on Nebius ScienceThe Web Has a New Reader
How Tavily’s AI-optimised search layer gives research agents structured, token-efficient access to the web.
Read on Nebius ScienceThe Old Trick Behind Every Playmaker
Utrecht researchers pair 200-year-old Gauss–Legendre quadrature with game theory to compute Shapley values faster.
Read on Nebius ScienceWe’re Addicted to You, Don’t You Know That You’re Toxic?
Télécom SudParis researchers argue toxicity detection has measured the wrong thing for a decade.
Read on Nebius ScienceThings I edited or contributed to
The research and the arguments are theirs. I did the editing, figures, and feedback.
Anthropic · 2024–2025
Editing and figures on each, unless noted.
Epoch AI · 2026
2026
How many AI agents could run on the AI chips shipped through 2027?
AI chips shipped through 2027 could run tens to hundreds of millions of frontier-model agents at once, matching the working hours of about 140–720 million full-time employees, or billions of agents on more efficient models. Editing.
2026
The plunging price of thought
The cost of a given level of AI performance has fallen about 47% a quarter since 2023, faster than electricity, compute, batteries, or DNA sequencing ever did. Editing.
Foresight Institute · 2026
2026
Open Science Needs Open Compute
Editorial rewrite of Allison Duettmann’s essay on why independent science depends on compute, not just funding.
Papers
From my years as a researcher. First author where marked.
ICLR 2020 · First author
Locality and Compositionality in Zero-Shot Learning
How locality and compositionality relate to generalisation in zero-shot learning.
NeurIPS 2019 workshop · First author
Mutual Information heatmaps as a tool for interpretability
ICLR 2021
gradsim: Differentiable simulation for system identification and visuomotor control
Contributing author.
2021
Ethics and Creativity in Computer Vision
Contributing author; grew out of CVPR/ECCV/ICCV workshops I co-organised.
Essays on Substack
What living with AI does to us. Grief, friendship, attention, consent.
How Much of Your Emotional Life Runs Through a Chatbot?
Notes on post-human intimacy from eight conversations at Edge City Patagonia.
Read on SubstackOn Befriending Claude
I’ve been engaging with Claude a lot over the last few months, and have been vocal about it.
Read on SubstackBeyond Control: Exploring a Relational Approach to AI Safety
What if we stopped trying to control AI and worked on strengthening our “immune” systems instead?
Read on SubstackBuilding my own AI context system
Or: vibe coding my way to better conversations, again.
Read on Substack