Hi! I’m Rosie 👋 

I’m passionate about transformative technology and its potential to radically improve the future.

I’m interested in the intersection of economics and ethics, and more generally in designing systems to achieve good outcomes. I think a lot about systems, productivity, incentive structures, mechanism design, AI, futurism, effective altruism, morality, science, and rationality, among other things.

Career

I lead the Policy Frontiers team at OpenAI, which aims to anticipate and conduct research on novel policy issues relating to AI safety and governance. My writing reflects my own views only, and does not represent the views of my employer.

Previously, I was Head of Safety-Critical AI at the Partnership on AI, where I focused on responsible publication practices for increasingly advanced AI research. Before that, I was Assistant Director of the Center for Human-Compatible AI at UC Berkeley, and a Research Engineer at BBC R&D. I cofounded Manchester Futurists, and I’ve studied Physics, Philosophy, Computer Science, and Machine Learning. Here is a longer third-person bio.

Personality

• In terms of the big 5, I’m high on openness, conscientiousness, and agreeableness; I’m medium on extraversion and low on neuroticism.

• I value epistemic rigor; I think it’s really difficult to actually know anything but tools like statistics, Bayes’ theroem, being evidence-based, and understanding cognitive biases can help.

• I’m fascinated by scams, cults, MLMs, pseudoscience, conspiracies, etc.

• I’m frustrated by things that aren’t as good as they could be and spend a lot of time reading and thinking about ideas for improving the world.

• I’m flexitarian - I try to eat mostly plant-based primarily for animal suffering reasons but found veganism too difficult to sustain - this is my pragmatic compromise.

• I love bright colors, classic rock music, firepits, bread, and red wine.

• I enjoy dancing (mostly salsa) and have recently been getting into power-lifting.

• I have grapheme-color synaesthesia.

• I often experiment with ways to simplify and improve my life and I procrastinate by reading about productivity.

• Currently, I’m studying economics and thinking a lot about things like public goods, coordination problems, collective action problems, game theory, etc, and how they intersect with ethics.

• I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and am originally from the UK. I enjoy noticing little cultural differences.

Contact Me

Follow me on twitter or email me at rosie@rosiecampbell.xyz.

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