Carl Shulman
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Carl Shulman is a researcher and thinker known for his work on existential risk, AI alignment, and long-term future strategy, particularly through his role at Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute.
All labels observed (1)
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| Carl Shulman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7657874 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Carl Shulman Context triple: [Future of Humanity Institute, hasNotableResearcher, Carl Shulman]
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Douglas Shulman
Douglas Shulman is an American public official who served as the head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) during the late 2000s and early 2010s.
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B.
Norm Schachter
Norm Schachter was a prominent American football official best known for serving as the referee in the first three Super Bowls.
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Mark Rosenthal
Mark Rosenthal is an American screenwriter known for co-writing major Hollywood films, including contributing to the story for "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country."
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D.
Vern Schillinger
Vern Schillinger is a fictional white supremacist prison leader and one of the primary antagonists on the HBO series "Oz," portrayed by actor J.K. Simmons.
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E.
Leo Salkin
Leo Salkin was an American animator, writer, and storyboard artist known for his work on mid-20th-century animated films and shorts.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Carl Shulman Target entity description: Carl Shulman is a researcher and thinker known for his work on existential risk, AI alignment, and long-term future strategy, particularly through his role at Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute.
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A.
Douglas Shulman
Douglas Shulman is an American public official who served as the head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) during the late 2000s and early 2010s.
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B.
Norm Schachter
Norm Schachter was a prominent American football official best known for serving as the referee in the first three Super Bowls.
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C.
Mark Rosenthal
Mark Rosenthal is an American screenwriter known for co-writing major Hollywood films, including contributing to the story for "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country."
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D.
Vern Schillinger
Vern Schillinger is a fictional white supremacist prison leader and one of the primary antagonists on the HBO series "Oz," portrayed by actor J.K. Simmons.
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E.
Leo Salkin
Leo Salkin was an American animator, writer, and storyboard artist known for his work on mid-20th-century animated films and shorts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
AI safety researcher
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person ⓘ philosopher ⓘ researcher ⓘ |
| advocates |
careful AI deployment
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evidence-based philanthropy ⓘ reducing existential risk ⓘ |
| affiliation | University of Oxford ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
AI safety community
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linked to:
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Nick Bostrom ⓘ Toby Ord ⓘ effective altruism community ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedIn |
economics
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philosophy ⓘ |
| employer | Future of Humanity Institute ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
AI alignment
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AI governance ⓘ decision theory ⓘ effective altruism ⓘ existential risk ⓘ global catastrophic risk ⓘ longtermism ⓘ macrostrategy ⓘ moral philosophy ⓘ population ethics ⓘ |
| hasExpertise |
AI risk modeling
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Bayesian reasoning ⓘ cause prioritization ⓘ |
| hasRole |
policy advisor
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research fellow ⓘ strategist ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Future of Humanity Institute ⓘ |
| name | Carl Shulman ⓘ |
| notableFor |
analysis of AI timelines
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analysis of existential risk reduction ⓘ contributions to effective altruism ⓘ research on AI alignment ⓘ research on existential risk ⓘ work on AI safety policy ⓘ work on long-term future strategy ⓘ writing on population ethics ⓘ |
| topicOf |
interviews on AI risk
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podcast appearances on longtermism ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
AI governance and regulation
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civilizational stability ⓘ ethical implications of advanced AI ⓘ transformative AI ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Carl Shulman Description of subject: Carl Shulman is a researcher and thinker known for his work on existential risk, AI alignment, and long-term future strategy, particularly through his role at Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.