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MATS is hiring world-class researchers, managers, generalists, and more to help grow our AI safety & security talent pipeline! Apply by Oct 17 for a Dec 1 start.
MATS Summer 2025 produced some excellent research in AI alignment, transparency, and security!
Incredible work by 3x @MATSprogram alumni and a great example of applied Mech Interp beating black box baselines and making significant progress on critical real-world problems:
Incredible work by 3x @MATSprogram alumni and a great example of applied Mech Interp beating black box baselines and making significant progress on critical real-world problems:
Applications to mentor in MATS Summer 2026 are now open! Mentorship is a 12-week, ≥1 h/week commitment. Let's build the field of AI safety & security together! matsprogram.org/mentor-eoi
MATS 9.0 applications are open! Launch your career in AI alignment, governance, and security with our 12-week research program. MATS provides field-leading research mentorship, funding, Berkeley & London offices, housing, and talks/workshops with AI experts.
Last chance to apply to work at MATS! Still taking applications for Research Managers, Community Managers, and Operations Generalists. Apply by May 2! matsprogram.org/careers
@MATSprogram Summer 2025 applications close Apr 18! Come help advance the fields of AI alignment, security, and governance with mentors including @NeelNanda5 @EthanJPerez @OwainEvans_UK @EvanHub @bshlgrs @dawnsongtweets @DavidSKrueger @RichardMCNgo and more!
MATS is hiring! Join us in advancing AI safety. Apply by Nov 3, 2024. - Research Manager (Berkeley) (1-3 hires) - Community Manager (Berkeley) (1 hire) - Operations Generalist (Berkeley) (1-2 hires) matsprogram.org/careers
Interested in AI safety strategy? The MATS curriculum just got updated! lesswrong.com/posts/rhEXTkDm…
Prof David Krueger is mentoring alignment researchers via MATS, deadline Oct 13th. David is great, maybe you should apply!
Prof David Krueger is mentoring alignment researchers via MATS, deadline Oct 13th. David is great, maybe you should apply!
@MATSprogram Alumni Impact Analysis published! 78% of alumni are still working on AI alignment/control and 7% are working on AI capabilities. 68% have published alignment research lesswrong.com/posts/jeBkx6ag…
@MATSprogram is holding application office hours on Fri Sep 27, at 11 am and 6 pm PT. We will discuss how to apply to MATS (due Oct 6!) and answer your Qs. Register here: airtable.com/appnMboxg76F1Q…
I’m taking applications for collaborators via @MATSprogram! It’s a great way for new or experienced researchers outside AI safety research labs to work with me/others in these groups: @NeelNanda5, @EvanHub, @MrinankSharma, @NinaPanickssery, @FabienDRoger, @RylanSchaeffer, ...🧵
MATS Winter 2024-25 applications close Oct 6! Come and kick-start your AI safety research career. Mentors include @OwainEvans_UK @bshlgrs @EvanHub @StephenLCasper and more! matsprogram.org
@MATSprogram Winter 2024-25 mentors include researchers from @AnthropicAI @GoogleDeepMind @aisafetyinst redwoodresearch.org @CNASdc @CHAI_Berkeley @AlgAlignMIT @farairesearch @ai_risks @apolloaisafety @kasl_ai @MIRIBerkeley and more! Apply by Oct 6. matsprogram.org/mentors
It was awesome speaking at @MATSprogram about vision mechanistic interpretability. There was so much fresh energy 🌻 The next talk will be streamed and materials will be made available!
This was work done at @MATSprogram , where I was mentored by @AdriGarriga . Thanks to @farairesearch for providing access to the compute cluster! We presented this work as a poster at the ICML 2024 MechInterp workshop (icml2024mi.pages.dev)
Met some good people this summer at the @MATSprogram.
Check out #ICML2024 posters by @MATSprogram scholars mentored by @AdriGarriga! July 26: NextGen AI Safety 💥Catastrophic Goodhart July 27: Mechanistic Interpretability 🔬InterpBench 🔥Adversarial Circuit Evaluation 🐍Indirect Object Identification Circuit in Mamba
Chandler Smith @MATSprogram has been awarded a Foresight AI Safety Grant for his groundbreaking Multi-Agent Safety project. Co-funded by @open_phil this research will be conducted at the prestigious @OxfordTVG Apply before September 30th: foresight.org/ai-safety/
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