Skip To Main Content
Conor Barnes on Muck Rack

Conor Barnes

As seen in: Medium, RealClear Politics, Quillette, Ecology and Society, 80000 Hours, Areo Magazine, Construction Dive, New English Review, The Bookends Review, Terror House
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Conor

Contact Conor, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

The most overlooked roles in AI safety

|
By Conor Barnes
| 80000 Hours
By · Published January 28th, 2026 · We recently spoke to Ryan Kidd, Co-Executive Director at MATS, a programme that trains researchers in AI safety. He shared with us some important trends in the technical AI safety ecosystem — and his thoughts line up with what we’re hearing from other leaders in this space.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Survey results: what AI safety orgs want in a hire

|
By Conor Barnes
| 80000 Hours
By · Published September 23rd, 2025 · Hi everyone! A few months ago, Benjamin Todd and I surveyed top figures in AI safety about the hiring needs of their organisations, including: What sort of people they’re hiring in the coming years How people can skill up to get a job The hardest qualities to find in applicants In total, we heard from 38 people running top organisations working on making AGI go well for humanity.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Reason and Religion in the Dusk of a Waning Age

|
By Conor Barnes
| New English Review
Religion is an all or nothing proposition. It is either the total denial of reality, or reality’s purest realization. This paradox underpins the enduring tension within the Western spiritual tradition, a tradition marked by the struggle between the divine and the human, the infinite and the finite, faith and reason. The religious yearning begins to subvert Reason’s hegemony when reason honestly admits its incapacity to ascertain the ultimate.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 16 articles