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I'm Trey Causey. I work on artificial intelligence & machine learning in Seattle, WA.

I spend most of my time thinking about how to use AI responsibly to accelerate an abundant future.

Currently I am the Head of Responsible Technology at Indeed.

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Letter to Arc members 2025

Arc abandoned for Dia—AI moment too big to ignore...

Don’t trust AI to talk accurately about itself

Don’t trust AI to talk accurately about itself...

What AI Thinks It Knows About You

Reflections on the opacity of AI models and what they reveal about us...

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Building Successful Responsible AI Teams

Skeptical optimists are the key to an abundant AI future

Selecting on the dependent variable

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As an unapologetic generalist, these are some of the core ideas that have shaped my worldview.

(01) Progress and abundance

Progress studies, up-wing politics, supply-side progressivism, and building a better future, faster.

(02) Collective action

More accurately, collective action problems.

(03) Institutional analysis

Backlash effects, policy feedback, mimetic isomorphism, Conway's Law, and brokerage via structural holes.

(04) Scientism

Most published research findings are false. Selection on the dependent variable is rampant.