Esben Kran is president of Seldon Lab and interim CEO of Apart Research. He believes in shipping a human-first revolution in technology development around AGI and has engaged thousands in AI safety and security towards this goal.
Posts
- , Learning From Architecture ( recent reads)
- , AGI Security: Rethinking Society's Infrastructure ( recent reads)
- , AGI Privacy ( recent reads)
- , Don't Give Up ( recent reads)
- , The AI Bubble ( recent reads)
- , The concrete risks of AI misdeployment ( recent reads)
- , Sentware ( recent reads)
- , Confident optimism ( recent reads)
- , The Expensive Internet hypothesis ( recent reads)
- , The AGI endgame ( recent reads)
- , "Just do the thing" ( recent reads)
- , Cybermorphism ( recent reads)
- , Go on a yearly hiatus ( recent reads)
- , Let's make AI agents safe ( recent reads)
- , My Tools ( recent reads)
- , Audiovisual reading ( recent reads)
Research
News
- [VentureBeat] Beyond sycophancy: DarkBench exposes six hidden ‘dark patterns’ lurking in today’s top LLMs
- [Information] Vores tankefrihed er under angreb fra chatbotternes subtile manipulation
- [Die Zeit] “AI will soon be able to take over your job”
- [For Humanity Podcast] Dark Patterns in AI and Creating Secure Infrastructure
- Engineering a World Designed for Safe Superintelligence (2025)
- AI Futures & Our Paths Forward (2025)
- AI Safety Startups (2024)
- Challenges and Solutions for AI Security (2024)
- Testing Your Suitability For AI Alignment Research (2023)
- AI Safety Research Outside the Hubs: A Guide for Aspiring Researchers (2023)
- Intro to Interpretability (2022)
- Series on my Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) research project (2021)