My research: a computational cognitive neuroscience perspective on alignment

Note - title edited to be more descriptive.This is a summary of the work I've done and work I plan to do, and the theories of change and AI progress that motivate my work. I've been working full-time on alignment for three years and change, and thinking about brainlike AGI and its alignment increasingly often since 2004. Here's the research agenda in one breath: I'm trying to predict what the first transformative AI will be, in enough mechanistic detail that we can predict likely failure modes o...