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Aligned to Flourish — Aligning AI and Flourishing

Hello, I'm Jacques. I work on AI alignment, making sure advanced AI systems remain beneficial as they scale.

This site collects my writing, projects, and notes on alignment research, automated safety, and the path to flourishing. Find me on Twitter or read more about me.

Now

Updated Apr 2026

I'm actively founding a stealth startup. I'm excited to share more when the time comes.

Writing

When Execution Gets Cheap, Does Taste Become the Moat?

4 min read

Hard Truths About Where AI Is Headed

5 min read

Difficulties in Building an AI Safety Startup

3 min read

Gaining clarity on Automated Alignment Research

4 min read

Better model diffing is needed

2 min read

Automating AI Safety: What we can do today

10 min read

AI Alignment Project Ideas

6 min read

How much I'm paying for AI productivity software (and the future of AI use)

9 min read

The importance of Entropy

2 min read

Accelerating AI Alignment Research (Talk)

1 min read

Using data attribution for AI alignment

4 min read

Quantum Computing, Photonics, and Energy Bottlenecks for AGI

10 min read

AI Insights #1: How Misalignment Could Lead to Takeover & Necessary Safety Properties

4 min read

My current research and request for collaborators

3 min read

But is it really in Rome? Limitations of the ROME model editing technique

2 min read

An incomplete list of projects I'd like to work on in 2023

1 min read

(Linkpost) Results for a survey of tool use and workflows in alignment research

1 min read

How learning efficiently applies to alignment research

2 min read

Differential Training Process: Delaying capabilities until inner aligned

3 min read

Near-Term AI capabilities probably bring low-hanging fruits for global poverty/health

1 min read

Is the "Valley of Confused Abstractions" real?

3 min read

Foresight for AGI Safety Strategy

9 min read

Notes on Cicero

3 min read

Detail about factual knowledge in Transformers

2 min read

Current Thoughts on my Learning System

4 min read

What does "Effective" in EA mean to you?

3 min read

Helping organizations survive disasters (and potentially avoid them altogether)

8 min read

I'll be in Berkeley for SERI MATS for the next 2 months

1 min read

AI Alignment YouTube Playlists

1 min read

A descriptive, not prescriptive, overview of current AI Alignment Research

1 min read

A survey of tool use and workflows in alignment research

2 min read

Interesting Applications of GPT-3: Elicit

9 min read