Atlas Computing updates: Q4 (a bit late)
Evan Miyazono
Hello Atlas community,
Here’s our a quick update (since our late Q3 update posted in August).
Project updates
Most exciting: We’re operationalizing the new strategy:
We’re focusing on making it easy for specialists to tackle the most important, neglected problems related to powerful AI. Here’s our public list of opportunities to create new organizations that could radically improve the chance of a good outcome with AI, possible solution directions, skills needed, etc:
Other updates:
I’m also very interested in growing the team: if you think you want to live between think tanks and incubators, or you think you know someone great who might, check out our job description. I’m hoping to hire a small cohort of a few people to start around the same time, likely in December or January.
If you’d like updates more than quarterly, you should definitely subscribe to our blog: https://blog.atlascomputing.org/. New posts go up roughly every other week.
Past events:
We recently organized FMxAI 2025, which gathered experts near the intersection of formal methods and machine learning, with 70% of respondents reporting they would attend a future event and highly recommend that colleagues attend, and we posted highlights and take-aways in this blogpost.
I also ended up changing my plans fairly last-minute to attend The Curve and Progress in the last few weeks.
Tzu represented Atlas Computing at EAG NYC and spoke at EA SF saturday.
Upcoming travel plans:
The rest of the quarter is pretty light on events, thankfully, but if you’re in DC and would like to meet mid November, let me know!
Anyway, thanks for reading!
- Evan
p.s. What Evan’s reading…
Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant was a fascinating description of the Luddite Movement. It was fascinating to learn about who the luddites actually were, what they did, and how the term has changed over time. It was fascinating to also learn that solutions to address tech-driven job loss like taxes on automation were proposed during the industrial revolution.
I loved the book The Nvidia Way by Tae Kim. I always love reading about incredibly high-achieving organizations, since it gives what usually seems like a pretty accurate sample of other points in the space of how organizations can function, and high functioning organizations often feel so different.
I had a good friend recommend The City We Became & The World We Make by N.K.Jemisin, which I read based on their recommendation and the amount I loved the Broken Earth trilogy. I’ve enjoyed these two, but I feel like my enjoyment was limited by the bounds of my experience, which include having spent no more than ~4 weeks in NYC across many trips.