Stream overview

Mentors

Sydney Von Arx
Nightingale
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Technical Staff
SF Bay Area
Misalignment Science
AI Control and Monitoring
Capability and Propensity Evaluations

Sydney works on adversarial stress-testing at METR. She studied computational biology at Stanford and co-founded the Atlas Fellowship.

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Mentorship style

Fellows we are looking for

Project selection

Streams

The Winter 2026 cohort offers a wide range of research streams led by experts across AI alignment, interpretability, governance, and safety. Each stream provides its own research agenda, methodology, and mentorship focus.

London
Empirical
SF Bay Area
Strategy and Forecasting
SF Bay Area
Systems Security
SF Bay Area
London
Control, Monitoring, Red-Teaming, Scalable Oversight, Scheming & Deception
SF Bay Area
Theory
Agent Foundations
SF Bay Area
Interpretability
SF Bay Area
Interpretability, Monitoring, Dangerous Capability Evals
SF Bay Area
Theory
Interpretability, Model Organisms, Red-Teaming, Safeguards, Scheming & Deception
SF Bay Area
Theory
Interpretability
Grand Rapids
Theory
Agent Foundations
Washington, D.C.
Systems Security
Policy and Governance
Compute Infrastructure, Policy & Governance, Security
London
Theory
Policy and Governance
Dangerous Capability Evals, Compute Infrastructure, Policy & Governance, Strategy & Forecasting
Washington, D.C.
Systems Security
Compute Infrastructure, Security
London
Control, Monitoring
London
Control, Scheming & Deception, Dangerous Capability Evals, Model Organisms, Monitoring
SF Bay Area
Security, Dangerous Capability Evals