Hi, I'm Luke. I'm a member of technical staff at Thinking Machines, currently working on decentralized alignment and policy research. I'm the co-author of The Intelligence Curse, an essay series that explores the potential negative effects of mass automation and how we can combat them. I also co-lead a MATS stream focused on keeping power distributed and ensuring society is dynamic and contestable even as AI advances.
I was previously a co-founder of Workshop Labs. We were an AI research company building user-aligned models, with a mission to make people irreplaceable. I also used to run AI governance and AI economics at BlueDot Impact, won a few elections as a campaign manager, interned at Congress, and studied politics at Oxford.
I'm based in San Francisco, spent 5 years in the UK, and am proudly from North Carolina.