Sophie Kim

Hi! I'm Sophie, a gap year student at Stanford focusing on AI governance for catastrophic risk mitigation. I write a Substack, The Counterfactual -- https://thecounterfactual.substack.com/ -- and earlier this year, I was ERA Fellow on the AIxBiosecurity track. This summer, I'll be doing research at MATS, mentored by Matthew Gentzel at Longview!

Posts

How to Actually Spend Billions on AI Safety
by Sophie Kim @ 2026-05-13 | +48 | 0 comments
Stop Donating to AI Safety Research*
by Sophie Kim @ 2026-04-25 | +73 | 0 comments
The Anthropic IPO Is Coming. We Aren't Ready for It.
by Sophie Kim @ 2026-04-12 | +182 | 0 comments
AI Can Already Evade DNA Synthesis Screening. Congress's New Bill Doesn't...
by Sophie Kim @ 2026-03-30 | +16 | 0 comments
The Open-Weight Problem
by Sophie Kim @ 2026-03-18 | +6 | 0 comments
LLMs Didn’t Help Novices Build Viruses. That Might Be the Wrong Question.
by Sophie Kim @ 2026-03-18 | +12 | 0 comments