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.

SF Bay Area
Dangerous Capability Evals
Boston
Policy and Governance
Adversarial Robustness, Policy & Governance, Red-Teaming, Safeguards
New York City
Control, Scalable Oversight, Red-Teaming, Model Organisms, Monitoring
SF Bay Area
Policy and Governance
Policy & Governance
SF Bay Area
Control, Monitoring, Dangerous Capability Evals
SF Bay Area
Security, Compute Infrastructure
London
Theory
Interpretability
London
Scheming & Deception, Dangerous Capability Evals, Control, Red-Teaming
SF Bay Area
Dangerous Capability Evals, Red-Teaming, Model Organisms, Control, Monitoring
Toronto
Interpretability
London
Control, Monitoring, Safeguards, Dangerous Capability Evals, Scheming & Deception
Chicago
Biorisk, Security, Safeguards
SF Bay Area
Interpretability, Agent Foundations
London
Empirical
Interpretability
London
Interpretability, Red-Teaming, Monitoring
London
Monitoring, Adversarial Robustness, Control, Model Organisms, Red-Teaming, Dangerous Capability Evals, Safeguards
New York City
Policy and Governance
Dangerous Capability Evals, Control, Strategy & Forecasting, Policy & Governance, Scalable Oversight, Agent Foundations
SF Bay Area
Empirical
Theory
Dangerous Capability Evals, Adversarial Robustness, Security, Red-Teaming, Scalable Oversight
London
Control, Scheming & Deception, Dangerous Capability Evals, Monitoring
Washington, D.C.
Policy and Governance
Policy & Governance, Strategy & Forecasting