EJT

I'm a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Oxford University's Global Priorities Institute.

Previously, I was a Philosophy Fellow at the Center for AI Safety.

So far, my work has mostly been about the moral importance of future generations. Going forward, it will mostly be about AI.

You can email me at elliott.thornley@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

Posts

Towards shutdownable agents via stochastic choice
by EJT @ 2024-07-08 | +26 | 0 comments
My favourite arguments against person-affecting views
by EJT @ 2024-04-02 | +78 | 0 comments
Critical-Set Views, Biographical Identity, and the Long Term
by EJT @ 2024-02-28 | +9 | 0 comments
The Shutdown Problem: Incomplete Preferences as a Solution
by EJT @ 2024-02-23 | +26 | 0 comments
The Shutdown Problem: An AI Engineering Puzzle for Decision Theorists
by EJT @ 2023-10-23 | +35 | 0 comments
The price is right
by EJT @ 2023-10-16 | +27 | 0 comments
How much should governments pay to prevent catastrophes? Longtermism’s limited...
by EJT, CarlShulman @ 2023-03-19 | +258 | 0 comments
There are no coherence theorems
by EJT @ 2023-02-20 | +107 | 0 comments
[Creative Writing Contest] [Referral] Pascal's Mugger Strikes Again
by EJT @ 2021-09-14 | +5 | 0 comments
The Impossibility of a Satisfactory Population Prospect Axiology
by EJT @ 2021-05-12 | +36 | 0 comments