LinkedIn suggests messaging AI researcher Henry Shevlin about a Cambridge job — and she actually did
dioscuri · x · 2026-09-25
dioscuri shares that his wife saw a Cambridge job ad on LinkedIn where the platform suggested she reach out to "Henry Shevlin and others in your network" — so she did, screenshot included. Shevlin is an AI safety/consciousness researcher at Cambridge's Leverhulme Centre. A lighthearted AI-circle anecdote about platform algorithms unwittingly facilitating direct networking.
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