Dr Alistair Quinn - Psychiatry Registrar. Harvard computational biology graduate. RG Menzies Scholar.
I work at the intersection of medicine, AI safety, and public communication.
Major tectonic shifts are underway. AI is reshaping reality, legacy institutions are buckling, and the gap between emerging capabilities and the structures built to contain them is widening by the day.
We can face this clearly. We can work together. We can look up.
I write about AI safety and risk - what frontier systems can do, what they might do, and what we should do about it. I also write about biological and artificial neural networks, psychiatry through the lens of predictive coding, human performance, statistics, and ethics under uncertainty.
Before pivoting to AI safety full-time, I trained in psychiatry in Australia’s public health system - experience that shapes how I think about risk assessment, manipulation, vulnerability, and the clinical reality of how people interact with increasingly capable AI systems.
The views expressed here are entirely my own and do not represent any organisation I work for, have worked for, or am affiliated with. All errors are mine.