Oliver Habryka
This stream works on infrastructure for AI safety research: AI tools that give safety researchers uplift, mechanism design and product development for funder coordination, and AI policy scenarios and proposals.
Stream overview
- Work with people on providing uplift to safety researchers by developing better AI tools, and integrating AI into their research and thinking flow
- Work with people on mechanism design and product development for funder coordination (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GUs4_wSaaU8y8IWo5qMSmZoc6mDgpgD45fqssrlDHvc/edit?tab=t.0)
- More AI policy scenarios and proposals similar to AI 2040
Mentors
SF Bay Area
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Oliver Habryka is the chief executive officer of Lightcone Infrastructure, the nonprofit behind the LessWrong forum and the Lighthaven venue. Habryka also leads Lightcone Commons, the organization's platform for funding ambitious philanthropic projects.
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The Winter 2027 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
Monitoring, Adversarial Robustness, Control, Model Organisms, Red-Teaming, Dangerous Capability Evals, Safeguards
New York City
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
Tübingen
Dangerous Capability Evals, Agent Foundations, Adversarial Robustness, Monitoring, Scalable Oversight, Scheming & Deception
Montreal
Agent Foundations, Dangerous Capability Evals, Monitoring, Control, Red-Teaming, Scalable Oversight
SF Bay Area
Control, Model Organisms, Red-Teaming, Scheming & Deception