Timmy McAllister
Timmy McAllister

I make AI-risk videos that get people to act.

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Street interviews: start from AI and jobs, introduce existential risk, then ask to contact your reps. 4 of 5 people I talked to agreed to message their representatives on camera.

Selected work

  1. message from a graduating computer science student

    My most-watched video. Starts with issues with jobs, then moves to what AI companies are doing and what you can do about it.

    Video · 190K+ views

  2. Breaking Points: “2026 Grad Exposes Disastrous Job Market”

    Guest on Breaking Points: a ~17-minute segment on AI's impact on the job market.

    Guest appearance · 177K+ views

  3. Tim Dillon: Best Peter Thiel Rants Compilation

    A successful example of me packaging someone else's long-form: finding the best moments and cutting them into a single, engaging piece.

    Compilation · 145K+ views

  4. AI Companies Must Be Stopped | MIRI's Peter Barnett

    Recorded at ICML 2026. Took skeptical questions I received throughout the week to a MIRI researcher. More from the conference to come.

    Interview · 15 min

  5. The Twin Nuclei Problem of Cell & Atom (Eric Weinstein)

    Led the production team; compiled the audio, planned footage, and designed the on-screen text.

    Produced for Eric Weinstein in 2021 · 82K+ views

  6. Le Miiverse Chronicles (two-part documentary)

    2 hr 15 min on internet culture. Made the original script, visuals, and music over 10 months.

    Documentary · 8.8K views, 1.6K watch hours
    (link to Part 2)

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About

I'm currently a Computer Science PhD student at UCF researching role adherence and drift in LLM agents, with a first-author paper at the AIWILD workshop at ICML 2026. I have always been passionate about the societal impacts of technology (tech is not "neutral") which is why I've focused on AI risk, social media, and related topics since the age of 15. I'm looking for comms, video, and public-engagement work in AI safety.

Social media algorithms are simple and misaligned, and they have already had a significant impact on society, particularly younger generations. I believe the possibility of misaligned superintelligent AI is currently the greatest threat to continued human existence.

Believe it or not, the average person is extremely open to the idea of existential risk from AI. But my most successful interactions start from a real world issue people face with AI now (such as jobs, electricity costs, social media, etc., etc.), and connect it back to the broader state of development and existential risks. I have had a lot of success with this approach, and I hope to continue this work and refine other methods.

I founded a humane technology club at UCF as a freshman (60+ members) and finished a B.S. in Computer Science with a 4.0 GPA.

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