About me

In short

I think about what sort of future we should want and how we can realize it. I was born in California, grew up in the great state of Massachusetts, and now live in Berkeley. I look roughly like this. I cooperate on prisoner's dilemmas and unironically aspire to love my neighbor as myself.

Now

I am a policy researcher at the AI Futures Project.

Before

I graduated from Williams College in 2026 with a BA in physics (magna cum laude). Before that, I was a 2025 summer research fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI in London. Before that, I spent the 2024-25 academic year as a visiting student at Exeter College in Oxford. The previous summer, I interned at the Center on Long-Term Risk, investigating how language models reason about decision theory. Before college, I was a student at the Commonwealth School in Boston.

Elsewhere

I'm @Miles_M_K on Twitter and @mkodama on Substack. I am also on Google Scholar, Letterboxd, and EA Forum. I have never worked for Thermo Fisher.

About this site

If you have comments or corrections to offer on anything I've written here, please do get in touch. My email address is milesmkodama at Google's mail. Note that everything on this site is endorsed by at least one of my past iterations, but not necessarily by my most recent one. By default, nothing on this site is endorsed by any organization with which I'm affiliated.

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