Hello

I'm Nixon Hanna. I'm currently a sophomore studying physics and math at MIT.

Last fall I became convinced of the importance of AI safety, which has been guiding a lot of what I've been up to. I've bounced around quite a bit on where in AI Safety might be right for me; originally considering technical research, then policy, then back to technical research, and now I'm planning on going into field/capacity building.

To this end, I'm currently the Director of the AI Safety Fundamentals Fellowship run by MIT AI Alignment (MAIA) as well an Executive Board Member for MAIA, in which I help make decisions on MAIA's mission, impact, and theory of change.

In addition to MAIA, I've involved around campus in a variety of other ways including being Chair for the Lecture Series Committee (MIT's student-run movie theater), Captain and VP of the climbing team, and a TSR^2 Tutor for introductory electromagnetism courses.

In terms of personal interests, I spend lots of time and energy on climbing, lifting, movies, reading, music (soul, jazz, hip-hop, r&b), physical media, philosophy, stationery, and many other things.

If you're interested, you can read more about my background and interests on the about page of this site.

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