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David Williams-King

@dwks

Research Manager at ERA; previously at LawZero with Yoshua Bengio; cyber PhD

https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-williams-king/
$400total balance
$200charity balance
$0cash balance

$200 in pending offers

Outgoing donations

Philosium Tokyo 9/19/2026
$50
PENDING
Principled Agents
$50
PENDING
Philosium Tokyo 9/19/2026
$100
PENDING
AI Safety Nepal
$100
26 days ago
FragGuard: Cross-Session Malicious Activity Detection for Model APIs
$100
4 months ago

Comments

Principled Agents
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David Williams-King

1 day ago

I'm familiar with some of Rubi's work from even before Principled Agents, and I'm happy to suggest supporting this nonprofit.

Philosium Tokyo 9/19/2026
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David Williams-King

8 days ago

Very interested in getting Japan's AI safety talent funnel up and running! The budget here is also very modest for the impact.

AI Safety Nepal
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David Williams-King

26 days ago

I am a big fan of supporting local AI safety groups, and this one seems to be very active already (lots of people in photos on the website). I am sure with Tzu mentoring, the org is on a good path.

FragGuard: Cross-Session Malicious Activity Detection for Model APIs
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David Williams-King

6 months ago

As mentioned in this proposal, I collaborate with Linh frequently on research (as part of Lida Safety). I work as a Research Manager now, so I would otherwise get fewer opportunities to do research directly. Linh's dataset for the AI control hackathon (a project I also participated in) was impressive. Linh has great research instincts and is hardworking, and I'm enjoying the ongoing SPAR project we are co-mentors for.

I'd encourage anyone interested in supporting the AI safety pipeline to donate to Linh!

Seed Funding For Geodesic Research
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David Williams-King

7 months ago

Geodesic has an outsized impact on the Cambridge AI safety community, through mentoring many MARS fellows and connections with ERA and Meridian. Their work on pretraining especially is unique and has high impact potential. I believe that supporting their work is a good use of funds. Disclaimer: I have collaborated with Geodesic researchers in the past.

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