Hi!

My name is Nathan Douglas. You can find me on the internet in various places:

I’m a software engineer (DevOps, Platform, Backend, and Infrastructure) working at Agile Six, Inc. on a contract with the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Recently, I’ve been working on transitioning into AI Safety. I’ve completed the BlueDot Impact AGI Strategy and Technical AI Safety courses, and I’ve applied for the Technical AI Safety Project sprint. See also my 1-Pager and my Action Plan.

I’ve also completed my first research sprint, A Legal Warning Can Prevent an LLM Cartel, but Not Break One! It was a small project, but it was fun, and also a big step for me. My biggest takeaway was that I have a lot to learn about how to conduct and report research!

I’ve applied for the current cohort of the Mercial Fellowship, the next cohort of the Generator Residency, and the next cohort of the Pivotal Research AI Safety Fellowship, and I’m waiting on the next round of SPAR.

But I don’t intend to sit idle while I wait to hear back - I am working hard to deepen my skills and my knowledge. This project is one part of that - working through ARENA independently and in public, documenting my experiences as I go.

(I’m also working on a series of videos about interpretability and ML, through a Nintendo® lens; stay tuned, but I’ll report progress on the project’s GitHub)

I’ll formally start work on this project tomorrow, and I’ll update this site as I go. If you read along, I hope you find in it whatever you seek 🙂