Fynn Heide, Saad Siddiqui, Isabella Duan
We're mostly interested in supervising governance research focused on international AI governance, and particularly inter-state collaboration and/or avoidance of misunderstandings with respect to very advanced AI system development and deployment.
Stream overview
We're mostly interested in supervising governance research focused on international AI governance, and particularly inter-state collaboration and/or avoidance of misunderstandings with respect to very advanced AI system development and deployment.
Mentors
Fynn Heide is the Executive Director of Safe AI Forum. He studied at the University of Warwick and has done research on China, and AI Governance.
Isabella Duan is a researcher on AI Policy at Safe AI Forum. She studied at University College London and the University of Chicago, and has previously done research in Existential Risk and AI Governance.
Saad Siddiqui is a Senior Researcher on AI Policy at Safe AI Forum. He studied at Cambridge and Tsinghua University, and has worked on AI Governance with a focus on Chinese policy.
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Community at MATS
MATS Research phase provides scholars with a community of peers.
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During the Research phase, scholars work out of a shared office, have shared housing, and are supported by a full-time Community Manager.
Working in a community of independent researchers gives scholars easy access to future collaborators, a deeper understanding of other alignment agendas, and a social network in the alignment community.
Previous MATS cohorts included regular lightning talks, scholar-led study groups on mechanistic interpretability and linear algebra, and hackathons. Other impromptu office events included group-jailbreaking Bing chat and exchanging hundreds of anonymous compliment notes. Scholars organized social activities outside of work, including road trips to Yosemite, visits to San Francisco, and joining ACX meetups.