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Writing

Essays on AI safety, biosecurity, and methodology

Long-form writing by Austin P. Morrissey on AI capability evaluations, biosecurity, and the philosophy of empirical science.

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The Alignment Problem Isn’t Theoretical
Deception, Deployment, and automated testing with PETRI
19 min

Evaluating LLM hypothesis generation in biology is hard
Is it useful, is it true, and a story about mRNA
9 min

Biorisk & DNA fragment analysis with Claude
Forbidden Questions and Their Answers
6 min

On Thinking About the Unthinkable
On writing plainly about hard things
2 min
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Archive

On Thinking About the Unthinkable

On writing plainly about hard things
biosecurity
voice
philosophy
April 28, 2026
2 min

What this site can do

A primitives demonstration — sidenotes, code annotations, math, callouts
meta
April 27, 2026
4 min

What makes for good research managers, mentors, and leaders?

Eight observations
research
leadership
mentorship
April 21, 2026
10 min

Inference time compute helps agents but hurts writing

On AI prose and the absence of musical structure
ai
writing
prose
April 5, 2026
2 min

The Sun and the Shadow of Rostam

Know yourself, or be destroyed.
philosophy
self-knowledge
literary
March 27, 2026
15 min

London & Artificial Intelligence

It’s a strange world
ai-safety
london
biosecurity
February 23, 2026
5 min

Evaluating LLM hypothesis generation in biology is hard

Is it useful, is it true, and a story about mRNA
ai-evals
biosecurity
scientific-method
December 12, 2025
9 min

MIT Lincoln Laboratory & The Dual-Use Frontier

Why I’m betting my career on consequential science
biosecurity
dual-use
science-policy
mit
November 27, 2025
7 min

Making Software for Your Non-Tech Small Business

Personalized software no longer takes tremendous time and money
ai-tools
software
productivity
November 24, 2025
13 min

Biorisk & DNA fragment analysis with Claude

Forbidden Questions and Their Answers
biosecurity
dual-use
ai-safety
November 18, 2025
6 min

In Good Company, a Letter to [Redacted]

Ministry for Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice
political
voice
dialogue
October 28, 2025
4 min

Kandahar, Afghanistan: Prelude

Stories of the Horizon of Being
travel
afghanistan
personal
October 21, 2025
5 min

Networking for Spies: Translating a Cyrillic Text with Claude Code

LLMs beyond the Anglosphere
ai-tools
claude-code
applied-ai
October 18, 2025
26 min

Autonomous Web Browsing with Comet

An insecure, extremely unhinged, and very good piece of software
ai-safety
agents
security
October 13, 2025
6 min

The Alignment Problem Isn’t Theoretical

Deception, Deployment, and automated testing with PETRI
ai-safety
alignment
evals
October 11, 2025
19 min

Keeping our Teeth in Biotech; prelude

Personal visions and other heretical hearsay
biotech
philosophy
vision
September 24, 2025
5 min

GPT-5, Verbal Judo of Sam Altman, and the First Censored Safety Report

A disturbing preview of emerging AI risk
ai-safety
openai
evals
August 22, 2025
11 min
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