Neil Chowdhury joins Thinking Machines to work on safety and alignment
ChowdhuryNeil · x · 2026-09-15
Neil Chowdhury, who has done AI safety research at MIT, OpenAI, and Transluce, announced he is joining Thinking Machines to work on safety and alignment.
- Core concern: as AI grows more capable, control will concentrate in a few companies, a risk that persists even if alignment is solved
- He argues for democratizing AI control — open weights and user-shaped AI rather than purely centralized services
- He admits this makes safety harder: open weights weaken safeguards that assume centralized control, and building controls that don't is a neglected problem in AI safety
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