AI Philosophy Competition
Two essays completed through Zachary Goodsell's AI Philosophy Competition.
AI SAFETY GENERALIST / PROJECT FOUNDER / NARRATIVE STRATEGIST
I turn uncertain AI futures into projects people can use.
I build at the seam of governance, communications, and product—finding neglected questions, making them legible, and shipping tools that help people reason and act.
300KCommunity built
20M+One-week organic reach
FULL STACKGovernance prototype shipped
POLICY × PRODUCT × STORYCross-disciplinary synthesis
AI SAFETY TRAJECTORY / CURRENT SIGNALS
Learning the field.
Contributing to it.
My path into AI safety combines structured training, competitive programs, philosophical writing, and an active research question about the limits of oversight.
BlueDot AGI Strategy
Completed BlueDot Impact's AGI Strategy Course and received a certificate.
AISC
Accepted into AISC, extending my engagement with structured AI-safety work and community.
When the actor can read more than the overseer.
“Risk tracks the decoder gap: what the acting model can decode minus what its overseer—safety training, a guard model, or a monitor—can decode.”
Developing thesis, paraphrased for this portfolio.
FLAGSHIP PROJECT / PROOF OF EXECUTION
01 / SHIPPED AND LIVERespect Under Uncertainty
A governance and world-building project about potential machine self-awareness. The premise is deliberately uncomfortable: uncertainty does not remove the need to choose.
Institutions cannot wait for certainty.
Potential machine experience creates a three-sided governance failure: assume too readily, dismiss too quickly, or remain unprepared while uncertainty persists.
A judgment becomes a revisable protocol.
Five fictional cases ask people to separate evidence, incentives, human risk, and possible welfare—then a constrained model pressure-tests the decision without acting as an oracle.
Move from a prototype to shared infrastructure.
The next stage is expert review, facilitated pilots, stronger evaluation, and an open toolkit that safety practitioners and educators can adapt.
OPERATING SYSTEM / HOW I WORK
02 / GENERALIST RANGEFounder energy.
Operator discipline.
Communicator's instinct.
TRAJECTORY / WHY THIS WORK
03 / SIGNALS CONVERGEThe path is unusual.
The pattern is consistent.
I have spent years learning how people understand systems, how ideas move through culture, and how imagined futures change present choices. AI safety is where those skills converge.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE
Studied how institutions distribute power and govern what they cannot fully predict.
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AUDIENCE SYSTEMS
Built a 300K-person media community and learned how trust, framing, and incentives move attention.
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SPECULATIVE WORLDS
Developed fiction and visual work about AI, climate, identity, and institutional choice.
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AI GOVERNANCE
Shipped an interactive lab that turns moral uncertainty into a concrete decision process.
BEST VERSION PROJECT / OPEN TO COLLABORATION
The future is not a conclusion.
It is a project.
I want to help ambitious AI-safety teams turn consequential ideas into programs, tools, convenings, and narratives that can change what happens next.