# Cormac Slade Byrd

> AI Safety Researcher. Building tools and writing about AI safety, community, and life well lived.

Website: https://sladebyrd.com
Blog: https://takeoff.sladebyrd.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cormac-slade-byrd-1b1145130/
GitHub: https://github.com/Cormacsb
Twitter/X: https://x.com/Cormac_SB

## Projects

- [Trajectory, Modelling Outcomes from AI](https://sladebyrd.com/trajectory/): A causal Monte Carlo model of how AI could go — fork any worldview, change a factor or a world's odds, and watch the forecasts move live.
- [A Byrd in Takeoff](https://takeoff.sladebyrd.com): My blog. Existential AI risk, purpose, meaning, and life well lived.
- [AI Safety Literature Database](https://sladebyrd.com/ai-safety-db): Search and explore 3,700+ AI safety papers and 4,700+ synthesized forum posts with structured metadata, citation/link graphs, and quality ratings.
- [AI Safety Orgs](https://sladebyrd.com/ai-safety-orgs): Briefs and theory-of-change analyses for 120 organizations in the AI safety ecosystem: frontier labs, funders, research orgs, policy shops, advocacy groups.
- [RSP Comparison](https://sladebyrd.com/rsp-comparison): Side-by-side comparison of Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy v1.0, v2.2, and v3.0.
- [Mythos System Card vs Risk Report](https://sladebyrd.com/mythos-comparison): Substantive wording differences between the Claude Mythos Preview System Card and Alignment Risk Report.
- [AI Safety Portfolio](https://sladebyrd.com/ai-safety-portfolio): Portfolio of my work toward making AI go well — research, projects, and writing.
- [AI Safety Learning Tracker](https://sladebyrd.com/learning-ai-safety): My 12-week self-study curriculum for AI safety and alignment, updated publicly.
- [Me](https://sladebyrd.com/me/landing-page): Extensive interactive personal website — who I am, organized as a navigable graph.
- [People on AI](https://sladebyrd.com/people-on-ai): What do 101 strangers think about superhuman AI? Door-to-door survey results (n=101).
- [Canvassing Planner](https://sladebyrd.com/canvassing-planner): Select NYC neighborhoods for the most demographically representative survey sample.
- [Why You Should Let Me Pay You Money To Live In Your House](https://sladebyrd.com/housing): Why you should let me pay you to live in your house — I'm looking for housing in the East Bay.
- [Calibration Quiz](https://sladebyrd.com/calibration-quiz): Create a quiz about yourself, see how well your friends really know you.

## About

Former proprietary trader at Five Rings Capital, now focused on AI safety research and mechanistic interpretability. Lives in a communal house in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Community builder — hosts biweekly dinner parties (20-35 people), advocates for housing abundance in NYC.

## Detailed Information

For comprehensive information including full project details, writing samples, and personal background, see: https://sladebyrd.com/llms-full.txt