Nina Panickssery

The Summer 2023 cohort supported 60 fellows with 15 mentors, working across 12 different research areas. The program consisted of a remote 4-week training phase, an 8-week research phase in Berkeley, and a 4-month extension phase. MATS leadership co-founded the London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA) in September 2023 to provide a dedicated research space for AI safety researchers and organizations in London, and for MATS fellows to continue their research projects. Research projects were distributed across multiple areas, with approximately one-third focused on evaluations and capability demonstrations and one-fifth on mechanistic interpretability, alongside work on agent foundations, activation engineering, and cooperative AI.