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AdamCon 2025!", "url": "https://adamjones.me/blog/adamcon-2025/", "published_at": "2025-07-18T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0871f-8d82-7305-8315-079b4b8154ba", "title": "Overcoming problems with compute thresholds for AI regulation", "url": "https://adamjones.me/blog/problems-with-compute-thresholds-ai-regulation/", "published_at": "2025-06-30T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0871f-8d82-7305-8315-079b4c4f3777", "title": "AI Model Thresholds: How Governments Can Identify Frontier AI Systems", "url": "https://adamjones.me/blog/ai-model-thresholds/", "published_at": "2025-06-30T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0871f-8d82-7305-8315-079b4c748fbd", "title": "5 ways to develop an AI safety plan or field strategy", "url": "https://bluedot.org/blog/5-ways-to-develop-ai-safety-plan", "published_at": "2025-06-29T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0871f-8d82-7305-8315-079b4c7c389e", "title": "Quantitative models of AI-driven bioterrorism and lab leak biorisk", "url": "https://adamjones.me/blog/ai-biorisk-paper/", "published_at": "2025-06-25T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0871f-8d82-7305-8315-079b4d00b573", "title": "What makes a good AI safety plan?", "url": "https://bluedot.org/blog/what-makes-a-good-ai-safety-plan", "published_at": "2025-06-20T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0871f-8d82-7305-8315-079b4db9cd88", "title": "Key paths, plans and strategies to AI safety success", "url": "https://bluedot.org/blog/ai-safety-paths-plans-and-strategies", "published_at": "2025-06-19T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0871f-8d82-7305-8315-079b4dd6812c", "title": "How you can get more value from me reviewing your work", "url": "https://adamjones.me/blog/reviewing-your-work/", "published_at": "2025-06-18T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0871f-8d82-7305-8315-079b4eb1c5df", "title": "Preferences for communicating with me", "url": "https://adamjones.me/blog/communication-preferences/", "published_at": "2025-06-18T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0871f-8d82-7305-8315-079b4eb8b948", "title": "LinkedIn Ads: can you get more efficient marketing by overbudgeting and holding your manual bid the same?", "url": "https://bluedot.org/blog/linkedin-ads-overbudgeting-experiment", "published_at": "2025-06-17T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0871f-8d82-7305-8315-079b4fae5088", "title": "What is customer due diligence in AI safety?", "url": "https://bluedot.org/blog/customer-due-diligence-ai-safety", "published_at": "2025-06-13T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0871f-8d82-7305-8315-079b508c88b1", "title": "Export ALL Your WhatsApp Chats from Android to Your Computer!", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8pJ1MB521s", "published_at": "2025-05-25T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0871f-8d82-7305-8315-079b5097224c", "title": "What might AGI look like, concretely?", "url": "https://adamjones.me/blog/what-is-agi/", "published_at": "2025-05-21T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0871f-8d82-7305-8315-079b5147a4cd", "title": "Why I disagree with Yann LeCun on whether LLMs could scale to AGI", "url": "https://adamjones.me/blog/yann-lecun-agi-disagreement/", "published_at": "2025-05-11T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0871f-8d82-7305-8315-079b5214948e", "title": "300,000 people are directly creating training data for AI", "url": "https://adamjones.me/blog/300k-ai-annotators/", "published_at": "2025-04-21T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0871f-8d82-7305-8315-079b524a2367", "title": "What does Yann LeCun think about AGI? A summary of his talk, \"Mathematical Obstacles on the Way to Human-Level AI\"", "url": "https://adamjones.me/blog/yann-lecun-on-agi/", "published_at": "2025-04-05T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0871f-8d82-7305-8315-079b53470873", "title": "Major UK banks are training their customers to fall for scams", "url": "https://adamjones.me/blog/banks-training-customers-to-fall-for-scams/", "published_at": "2025-04-04T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0871f-8d82-7305-8315-079b53f126ce", "title": "Running LLMs Locally in 2025: Speed tests on M2 Pro + 16 GB RAM", "url": "https://adamjones.me/blog/local-llms-speed-early-2025/", "published_at": "2025-04-02T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0871f-8d82-7305-8315-079b54c17637", "title": "A rough plan for AI alignment assuming short timelines", "url": "https://adamjones.me/blog/rough-alignment-plan-early-2025/", "published_at": "2025-03-31T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0871f-8d82-7305-8315-079b55112746", "title": "YouTube series: How to contribute to the BlueDot Impact repo", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqUl_YPWTmuJahSpi_PUDj55AtEi2edax", "published_at": "2025-03-30T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0871f-8d82-7305-8315-079b55c38054", "title": "AI safety content you could create", "url": "https://adamjones.me/blog/ai-safety-content/", "published_at": "2025-01-06T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0871f-8d82-7305-8315-079b55eef484", "title": "Policymakers don't have access to paywalled articles", "url": "https://adamjones.me/blog/policymaker-paywalls/", "published_at": "2025-01-05T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0871f-8d82-7305-8315-079b56250368", "title": "Alignment Is Not All You Need: Other Problems in AI Safety", "url": "https://adamjones.me/blog/alignment-is-not-all-you-need/", "published_at": "2025-01-02T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0871f-8d82-7305-8315-079b56f57fa5", "title": "The post-AGI purpose problem", "url": "https://adamjones.me/blog/post-agi-purpose/", "published_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0871f-8d82-7305-8315-079b570f39aa", "title": "Why product managers are uniquely suited for tech policy roles", "url": "https://adamjones.me/blog/product-manager-policymaking/", "published_at": "2024-12-31T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0871f-8d82-7305-8315-079b57a110d1", "title": "The beginners guide to investing (2025 UK edition)", "url": "https://adamjones.me/blog/how-to-start-investing-uk/", "published_at": "2024-12-25T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0871f-8d82-7305-8315-079b586b2459", "title": "Teach-swap-explain: a learning activity for course designers to create highly effective learning experiences", "url": "https://bluedot.org/blog/teach-swap-explain-activity/", "published_at": "2024-12-12T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0871f-8d82-7305-8315-079b5924dda0", "title": "Why we run our AI safety courses", "url": "https://bluedot.org/blog/why-we-run-our-ai-safety-courses/", "published_at": "2024-12-04T00:00:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog

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2026

38 thinking tools to become 10x more effective, at anything original ↗

10 Sept 2026

Thinking tool: Use leverage against weakness original ↗

9 Sept 2026

Thinking tool: Think in public original ↗

8 Sept 2026

Thinking tool: Recursively self-improve original ↗

7 Sept 2026

Thinking tool: Build systems, not willpower original ↗

6 Sept 2026

Thinking tool: Meet with advisors in your head original ↗

5 Sept 2026

Thinking tool: Do the obvious things original ↗

4 Sept 2026

Thinking tool: Sometimes you just have to grind original ↗

3 Sept 2026

Thinking tool: Overcorrect, then settle original ↗

2 Sept 2026

Thinking tool: More dakka original ↗

1 Sept 2026

Thinking tool: PIOSEE - handle crises, incidents or important projects original ↗

31 Aug 2026

Thinking tool: Overcommunicate original ↗

30 Aug 2026

Thinking tool: Refuse the idiot plot original ↗

29 Aug 2026

Thinking tool: Climb the user-contact ladder original ↗

28 Aug 2026

Test-time compute and distillation can be applied to humans original ↗

26 Aug 2026

Prediction is underrated: if you can predict, you can optimise original ↗

25 Aug 2026

Empathy: an absurdly underrated career superpower original ↗

24 Aug 2026

Thinking tool: Be disagreeable original ↗

23 Aug 2026

Thinking tool: Choose simple over easy original ↗

22 Aug 2026

Thinking tool: Diverge, then converge original ↗

21 Aug 2026

Thinking tool: Build feedback loops original ↗

20 Aug 2026

Thinking tool: Shorten cycle times, reduce batch sizes original ↗

19 Aug 2026

Thinking tool: Be AI-legible original ↗

18 Aug 2026

Thinking tool: Become a narrow expert original ↗

17 Aug 2026

Thinking tool: Run the experiment / actually do the thing original ↗

16 Aug 2026

Thinking tool: Make decisions with made-up statistics original ↗

15 Aug 2026

Thinking tool: Suspect mess or misalignment, not malice original ↗

14 Aug 2026

Thinking tool: Be sceptical original ↗

13 Aug 2026

Thinking tool: Adopt a scout mindset original ↗

12 Aug 2026

Thinking tool: Be a new homunculus original ↗

11 Aug 2026

Thinking tool: Defend slack original ↗

10 Aug 2026

Thinking tool: Ask if the answer changes the decision original ↗

9 Aug 2026

Thinking tool: Be Pareto-best in the world original ↗

8 Aug 2026

For better outcomes: we can slow AI capabilities AND accelerate AI safety original ↗

7 Aug 2026

RL environments I'd find interesting original ↗

7 Aug 2026

Thinking tool: Find problems, not applications for solutions original ↗

6 Aug 2026

Thinking tool: Pick up the trillion-dollar bill original ↗

5 Aug 2026

Thinking tool: Hunt for 100x opportunities original ↗

4 Aug 2026

Thinking tool: Accept redundancy original ↗

3 Aug 2026

Thinking tool: Musk's 5 step design process (question, delete, simplify, accelerate, automate)original ↗

2 Aug 2026

Thinking tool: Framestorming original ↗

1 Aug 2026

Thinking tool: Optimise only the constraint by finding your bottleneck original ↗

31 Jul 2026

Thinking tool: Create surface area for luck original ↗

30 Jul 2026

Thinking tool: Backwards chaining original ↗

29 Jul 2026

Effective Patterns for Advanced MCP Usage original ↗

17 Jul 2026

Suddenly becoming vegetarian, and maybe even vegan???original ↗

14 Jul 2026

Run better job interviews by viewing them as measurement tools original ↗

13 Jul 2026

Interview questions that find high agency people original ↗

13 Jul 2026

Do structured interviews actually work?original ↗

13 Jul 2026

CLAUDE.md Considered Harmful original ↗

12 Jul 2026

Introducing: 'highvol'-tagged blog posts original ↗

10 Jul 2026

What working at Palantir was actually like original ↗

27 Jun 2026

Announcing... AdamCon 2026!original ↗

21 Jun 2026

A guide to building useful AI tools for AI safety original ↗

8 Jun 2026

Good MCP servers are designed for composition original ↗

7 Jun 2026

I'm hiring: Software Engineer, RL Data at Anthropic original ↗

3 Jun 2026

How we contain Claude across products original ↗

25 May 2026

Running LLMs Locally in 2026: Local models got ~2.8x faster in a year original ↗

16 Apr 2026

What's the best dictation app? I tried 21 Wispr Flow alternatives to find out.original ↗

15 Apr 2026

Working at Anthropic FAQs original ↗

11 Apr 2026

How a coalition of democracies solves AGI's biggest risks original ↗

21 Mar 2026

UBI doesn't solve AI power concentration original ↗

15 Mar 2026

Open source doesn't solve AI power concentration original ↗

15 Mar 2026

How AGI could kill US democracy original ↗

15 Mar 2026

Give AI companies something to aim for: The case for beneficial capability evals original ↗

10 Jan 2026

Langfuse Context: All things MCP with Adam Jones (Tech Lead at Anthropic)original ↗

6 Jan 2026

2025

MCP Connect with Anthropic, Zoopla & Alpic | London edition original ↗

19 Dec 2025

Code Execution with MCP: Fix Tool Token Bloat (Adam Jones, Anthropic)original ↗

12 Dec 2025

Code execution with MCP: Building more efficient agents original ↗

4 Nov 2025

The Model Context Protocol: Connecting AI to Everything - Adam Jones, Anthropic original ↗

3 Nov 2025

An AI safety plan that might work: an international coalition governing AGI original ↗

15 Sept 2025

What should the UK be doing to make AGI go well?original ↗

15 Aug 2025

Announcing... AdamCon 2025!original ↗

18 Jul 2025

Overcoming problems with compute thresholds for AI regulation original ↗

30 Jun 2025

AI Model Thresholds: How Governments Can Identify Frontier AI Systems original ↗

30 Jun 2025

5 ways to develop an AI safety plan or field strategy original ↗

29 Jun 2025

Quantitative models of AI-driven bioterrorism and lab leak biorisk original ↗

25 Jun 2025

What makes a good AI safety plan?original ↗

20 Jun 2025

Key paths, plans and strategies to AI safety success original ↗

19 Jun 2025

How you can get more value from me reviewing your work original ↗

18 Jun 2025

Preferences for communicating with me original ↗

18 Jun 2025

LinkedIn Ads: can you get more efficient marketing by overbudgeting and holding your manual bid the same?original ↗

17 Jun 2025

What is customer due diligence in AI safety?original ↗

13 Jun 2025

Export ALL Your WhatsApp Chats from Android to Your Computer!original ↗

25 May 2025

What might AGI look like, concretely?original ↗

21 May 2025

Why I disagree with Yann LeCun on whether LLMs could scale to AGI original ↗

11 May 2025

300,000 people are directly creating training data for AI original ↗

21 Apr 2025

What does Yann LeCun think about AGI? A summary of his talk, "Mathematical Obstacles on the Way to Human-Level AI"original ↗

5 Apr 2025

Major UK banks are training their customers to fall for scams original ↗

4 Apr 2025

Running LLMs Locally in 2025: Speed tests on M2 Pro + 16 GB RAM original ↗

2 Apr 2025

A rough plan for AI alignment assuming short timelines original ↗

31 Mar 2025

YouTube series: How to contribute to the BlueDot Impact repo original ↗

30 Mar 2025

AI safety content you could create original ↗

6 Jan 2025

Policymakers don't have access to paywalled articles original ↗

5 Jan 2025

Alignment Is Not All You Need: Other Problems in AI Safety original ↗

2 Jan 2025

The post-AGI purpose problem original ↗

1 Jan 2025

2024

Why product managers are uniquely suited for tech policy roles original ↗

31 Dec 2024

The beginners guide to investing (2025 UK edition)original ↗

25 Dec 2024

Teach-swap-explain: a learning activity for course designers to create highly effective learning experiences original ↗

12 Dec 2024

Why we run our AI safety courses original ↗

4 Dec 2024