Asa Cooper Strickland

The Winter 2022-23 cohort supported 58 scholars with 17 mentors including researchers from Anthropic, MIRI, ARC, Redwood Research, and other leading organizations. This cohort introduced the Scholar Support team to provide research coaching and unblocking assistance to scholars throughout the program. The program ran 6 weeks online followed by 2 months in-person in Berkeley and featured scholar-led activities including study groups on mechanistic interpretability and linear algebra, weekly lightning talks, and workshops on research tools and technical writing.Notable alumni from this cohort include Marius Hobbhahn, who founded Apollo Research and published work on mechanistic interpretability; Asa, who co-authored papers on measuring situational awareness and the "reversal curse" in large language models; and Jesse Hoogland, who founded Timaeus and developed the developmental interpretability research agenda.