Zvi Mowshowitz
Author of Don't Worry About the Vase
Former competitive game player and trader who writes exhaustive weekly AI roundups at thezvi.wordpress.com, widely read inside the AI safety community for tracking claims and counterclaims week by week.
Key arguments & positions
- Writes long weekly AI roundups that log claims, counterclaims and what later turned out to be wrong.
- Holds that frontier AI risk is serious while arguing case by case rather than from a single framework, and is openly critical of arguments on his own side.
- Advocates transparency requirements and evaluation mandates over broad capability bans.
Accomplishments
- Author of Don't Worry About the Vase, running since 2009 and now focused almost entirely on AI.
- Former professional Magic: The Gathering player and Hall of Fame inductee; former trader.
- Co-founded the prediction-market analysis project Balsa Research.
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