Personal website of Hazel Shanks
Decided to collapse a few of my identities, and admit that these are me:
The Grand Archive TCG card search site prereq.cards is mine.
My CV.
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Hazel_Shanks_CV_(2025).pdf
Slides for the talk I gave at the Christchurch AI Meetup (July 7th 2025).
Topic was AI agents and figuring out if/how they can actually get things done. I look at measuring that in the present moment (mid-2025), through the lens of the Claude Plays Pokemon public experiment.
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claude-plays-presentation-(final).pdf
Slides for the talk I gave at the Christchurch AI Safety & Ethics Meetup (Feb 16th 2026).
Topic was an intro to x-risk from ASI, covering Yudkowsky's book 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies' with regard to recent developments in AI.
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doom_thesis_presentation_(full).pdf