Sophie Kim

I’m Sophie, trying to figure out how to make the future go well.

Currently, I’m:

• A fellow at MATS, researching the conditions for US-China cooperation on AI; and
• Writing about AI biosecurity and AI policy on my Substack, The Counterfactual.

I’m also thinking about the grantmaker bottleneck and how to solve that bottleneck (with, say, a BlueDot AI Safety Grantmaking Fundamentals course). Right now, I’m on a gap from Stanford University.

Previously, I was a fellow at ERA, researching open-weight model policy options.

Career-wise, I’m most drawn to environments that enable agency—places where I can move quickly and make things, with minimal bureaucracy. I also value paths that are highly leveraged and explicitly non-credentialist. My current plan is to pursue startups.