I work in AI Safety.
My mission statement is: we can create an amazing future for us all with superhuman AI--let's develop and use that immense power wisely, and include the risks and our personal and collective limitations in our choices, so that we'll survive and continue flourishing and maturing far into the future.
Resume highlights
Jerry and Chelsea Sun run GoodForever, which houses my investments and my philanthropic foundation. GoodForever Foundation employs a number of researchers and supports individuals and organizations working on AI Safety and civilizational development.
I was/am the first lead investor and an important early advisor for several startups and organizations:
Contact me
You're very welcome to email me at "hello", then @, then my domain, blakeb.org.
My mission statement is: we can create an amazing future for us all with superhuman AI--let's develop and use that immense power wisely, and include the risks and our personal and collective limitations in our choices, so that we'll survive and continue flourishing and maturing far into the future.
Resume highlights
- MIRI. From 2018 to 2021, I helped run MIRI, the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, which I think of as the original AI Safety organization. I remain on the board.
- Recursion. In 2013 I co-founded Recursion Pharmaceuticals and until 2018 was CTO. Recursion is a techbio startup which I think does the most cellular biology experiments in the world by far, and which IPO'ed in 2021. I'm still on the board. We have partnerships with Roche and Nvidia.
- PhD. I earned a PhD in molecular biology starting in 2011, applying machine learning to huge proteomics experiments, in the Marcotte Lab at UT Austin. I co-first-authored a Nature paper.
- BuildASign. In 2005 I co-founded and led engineering, then online marketing, at BuildASign.com, which was later bought by VistaPrint.
Jerry and Chelsea Sun run GoodForever, which houses my investments and my philanthropic foundation. GoodForever Foundation employs a number of researchers and supports individuals and organizations working on AI Safety and civilizational development.
I was/am the first lead investor and an important early advisor for several startups and organizations:
- Leash. ML + the most biochemical drug-protein interactions
- Alvea. Fastest company ever from founding to first-in-human trials
- Redwood Research. Nonprofit AI alignment ML research (history is more complex, but directionally accurate)
- Not-yet-launched: AI + collective psychological development to cultivate better online discussions
- Encultured. A video game company focused on enabling the safe introduction of AI technologies
- [Announcing soon.] An AI assistant for research, tying LLM progress to better decision-making
- Conception. Human egg cells from skin cells, enabling more of us to have biological children
Contact me
You're very welcome to email me at "hello", then @, then my domain, blakeb.org.