Jacoblog

Jacob Mages-Haskins

Principal Software Engineer

Contrast Security, Inc.

jacobmages-haskins@outlook.com

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Notice:
This is my personal technical blog. Any views expressed herein are my own and not representative of my employer.

Reading List

Active Voices

Simon Willison
LangChain blog
Arxiv recent AI papers

Frontier Labs

OpenAI
DeepMind
Anthropic
- Website
- News
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
xAI
Mistral AI
- Website
- News
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
Cohere
- Website
- Blog
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
Adept AI
- Website
- Blog
- X (Twitter)
Inflection AI
- Website
- Blog
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
AI21 Labs
- Website
- Blog
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
Aleph Alpha
- Website
- Newsroom
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube

Tech Giants with AI Divisions

Google Research
- Website
- AI Blog
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
Microsoft AI
Meta AI
- Website
- Blog
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
Amazon AWS AI
Apple Machine Learning Research
- Website
- Research
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
IBM Research (watsonx)
- Website
- Blog
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
NVIDIA AI
Intel AI
Salesforce AI
- Website
- AI Blog
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
Oracle AI

Specialized AI Product Companies

Scale AI
- Website
- Blog
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
Hugging Face
Runway
- Website
- Blog
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
Synthesia
- Website
- Blog
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
Descript
- Website
- Blog
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
Character.AI
- Website
- Blog
- X (Twitter)
Quora Poe
SoundHound AI
- Website
- Blog
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
Pinecone
Weights & Biases
- Website
- Articles
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube

Robotics & Vision AI

Boston Dynamics AI Institute
- Website
- News
- X (Twitter)
Figure AI
- Website
- Blog
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
Agility Robotics
- Website
- News
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
Unitree Robotics
Skydio
- Website
- Blog
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
Shield AI
- Website
- News
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
Anduril Industries
- Website
- News
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
Aurora Innovation
- Website
- Blog
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
Waymo
- Website
- Blog
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
Cruise
- Website
- News
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube

Emerging AI Innovators

Perplexity AI
Glean
- Website
- Blog
- X (Twitter)
Tome
- Website
- Blog
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
Jasper
- Website
- Blog
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
Copy.ai
- Website
- Blog
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
Midjourney
- Website
- X (Twitter)
Stability AI
- Website
- News
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
ElevenLabs
- Website
- Blog
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
Replit
- Website
- Blog
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
Hazy
- Website
- Blog
- X (Twitter)

AI Alignment

AGI 2027
Leopold Aschenbrenner
- Situational Awareness essay series
- X (Twitter)

AI Personalities

Jan Leike
- Official website & publications
- X (Twitter)
Paul Christiano
- Personal site: AI alignment blog
- Deep RL from Human Preferences (2017)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Personal website (MIRI & rationality)
- LessWrong profile
Nate Soares
- “About Me” page (MIRI)
- Central AI Alignment Problem post
Rohin Shah
- Personal website & Alignment Newsletter
- Google Scholar profile
Richard Ngo
- The Alignment Problem from a Deep Learning Perspective (ICLR 2023)
- Personal website & alignment resources
Ajeya Cotra
- Forecasting Transformative AI with Biological Anchors (2020)
- The case for aligning narrowly superhuman models (2021)
Owain Evans
Steve Byrnes
Ethan Caballero
- AI Alignment Forum profile (posts & commentary)
- “Broken Neural Scaling Laws” (Ethan Caballero et al., arXiv 2022)
Evan Hubinger
- Personal website & research
- “Risks from Learned Optimization in Advanced ML Systems” (Hubinger et al., 2021)
John Wentworth
- Alignment Forum profile
- “Ambitious Value Learning” (Kaplan & Wentworth et al.)
Turner Oliphant
- Alignment Forum profile
- “Scaler Actor-Critic Agents” – discussed in scalable oversight literature
Quintin Pope
- Personal research page
- “Circuit Grounding” (Pope et al., mechanistic interpretability)
Mark Xu
- Alignment Forum profile
- “ELK: Eliciting Latent Knowledge” (Xu, Amodei, Christiano et al.)
Abram Demski
- Personal website (alignment theory & embedded agency)
- “Embedded Agency” (with Scott Garrabrant, 2020)
Scott Garrabrant
- LessWrong / Alignment Forum profile
- “Embedded Agency” (with Abram Demski)
Tom Everitt
- Personal website & publications list
- “Understanding Agent Incentives using Causal Influence Diagrams” (Everitt et al., 2019)
Victoria Krakovna
- Personal website & research summary
- “Specification Gaming: The flip side of AI ingenuity” (Krakovna et al., DeepMind, 2020)
Geoffrey Hinton
- Personal page (University of Toronto)
- Google Scholar profile
Yann LeCun
- Official website & research
- X (Twitter) profile
Yoshua Bengio
- Personal website
- Google Scholar profile
Demis Hassabis
- DeepMind leadership profile
- Google Scholar profile
Shane Legg
- Google Scholar profile
Dario Amodei
- Anthropic leadership page
Ilya Sutskever
- OpenAI team profile
Andrej Karpathy
- Personal website & blog
François Chollet
- Personal website (Keras, ARC, AI reasoning)
- Google Scholar profile
Sergey Levine
- UC Berkeley personal page
- Google Scholar profile
Chelsea Finn
- Stanford robotics/lab page
- Google Scholar profile
Noam Shazeer
- Publications list (arXiv search)
Christopher Olah
- Distill.pub co-founder & writings
- Google Scholar profile
Aidan Gomez
- Distill.pub (co‑created with Chollet & Olah)
- Google Scholar profile
Jared Kaplan
- Google Scholar profile
Jacob Steinhardt
- Stanford site with publications
- Google Scholar profile
Michael Littman
- Brown University profile
- Google Scholar profile
Jeff Dean
- Google Research profile
Samy Bengio
- Google Scholar profile
Oriol Vinyals
- Google Scholar profile
Stuart Russell
- Stuart Russell personal page (UC Berkeley, AI research & CHAI)
- AI: A Modern Approach (textbook co‑authored by Russell & Norvig)
Nick Bostrom
- Nick Bostrom official homepage (Superintelligence, existential risk)
- Nick Bostrom Wikipedia profile
Max Tegmark
- Max Tegmark Wikipedia profile (Future of Life Institute)
Roman Yampolskiy
- Roman Yampolskiy (AI safety & malicious AI) – UIC faculty page
Toby Ord
- Toby Ord Wikipedia (The Precipice, FHI)
Miles Brundage
- Miles Brundage profile (AI policy & governance)
Dan Hendrycks
- Dan Hendrycks personal homepage (Center for AI Safety director)
- Aligning AI With Shared Human Values (Hendrycks et al., ICLR 2021)
Andrew Critch
- Andrew Critch GitHub (co‑author of "Aligning AI With Shared Human Values")
- Aligning AI With Shared Human Values (Critch et al.)
David Krueger
- David Krueger Google Scholar profile
Allan Dafoe
- Allan Dafoe personal site (AI governance, FHI, GovAI)
Sam Altman
Greg Brockman
- Personal website
- Wikipedia profile
Daniela Amodei
- Wikipedia profile
- X (Twitter)
Emad Mostaque
- Wikipedia profile (founder, ex‑CEO of Stability AI)
- X (Twitter)
Mustafa Suleyman
- Wikipedia profile (DeepMind, Inflection, Microsoft)
Reid Hoffman
- Wikipedia profile (OpenAI backer, Inflection co-founder)
Jaan Tallinn
- Wikipedia profile (Metaplanet, Skype, AI safety advocate)
Alexandr Wang
- Wikipedia profile (founder & CEO of Scale AI)
Dmitri Brereton
- Wikipedia profile (critic & writer on Google AI leadership)
Tom Brown
- GPT-3 Wikipedia page (Tom Brown as lead author)
Matt Deitke
Yuhuai (Tony) Wu
Jason Phang
- Jason Phang personal website & papers
- Google Scholar profile
Barret Zoph
- Google Scholar profile (AutoML, neural architecture search)
Luke Zettlemoyer
- UW faculty page & publications
- Google Scholar profile
Colin Raffel
- Personal website (T5, AudioLM, etc.)
- Google Scholar profile
Alex Tamkin
- Alex Tamkin personal website & publications
- Google Scholar profile
Sebastian Ruder
- Sebastian Ruder blog & research
- Google Scholar profile
Timo Schick
- Timo Schick personal site & papers
- Google Scholar profile
Jonathan Frankle
- Personal website
- Google Scholar profile (“Lottery Ticket Hypothesis”)
Josh Tenenbaum
- MIT CBMM profile & homepage
- Google Scholar profile
Gary Marcus
- Official website (cognitive science & AI critique)
- Substack: “Marcus on AI” newsletter
Leslie Kaelbling
- MIT CSAIL/EEC faculty profile
- Wikipedia profile
Michael Cohen
- Personal website (AI safety research)
- CHAI profile—Stuart Russell lab collaborator
Sara Hooker
- Personal research site (Cohere, interpretability & AI ethics)
- Google Scholar profile
Yejin Choi
- NVIDIA research profile
- Stanford HAI & CS profile
Mira Murati
- Wikipedia profile (ex‑OpenAI CTO, founding Thinking Machines Lab)
- X (Twitter) profile
Pieter Abbeel
- UC Berkeley homepage & BAIR Lab
- Wikipedia profile
Rishi Bommasani
- Personal website (co‑leader of the Papers with Code AI community)
- Google Scholar profile
Shixiang (Shane) Gu
- Personal page (UC Berkeley, alignment & interpretability)
- Google Scholar profile
Mo Gawdat
- Official personal website
- X (Twitter profile)
Lex Fridman
- Personal website & podcast
- Wikipedia profile
Tristan Harris
- Personal site (Center for Humane Technology)
- Wikipedia profile
Balaji Srinivasan
- Balaji Srinivasan personal/about page
- Wikipedia profile
Eric Schmidt
- Wikipedia profile (former Google CEO, AI commentary)
Marc Andreessen
- Wikipedia profile (co‑founder of Andreessen Horowitz & Netscape)
Peter Thiel
- Wikipedia profile (PayPal, Palantir, Founders Fund)
Vitalik Buterin
- Wikipedia profile (Ethereum co‑founder)
- X (Twitter/X profile)
Ben Goertzel
- Official personal website & AGI writings
Robin Hanson
- Wikipedia profile (GMU economist & FHI contributor)
Jim Fan
Sébastien Bubeck
- Wikipedia profile (OpenAI, formerly MSR foundations)
Lilian Weng
- Lil’Log personal learning blog & research notes
- Google Scholar profile

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