Apply for MATS mentorship at Team Shard before October 2nd. Alex Cloud (@cloud) and I run this MATS stream together. We help alignment researchers grow from seeds into majestic trees. We have fun, consistently make real alignment progress, and have a dedicated shitposting channel.
Our mentees have gone on to impactful jobs, including (but not limited to)
@lisathiergart (MATS 3.0) moved on to being a research lead at MIRI and now a senior director at the SL5 task force,
@cloud (MATS 6.0) went from mentee to co-mentor in one round and also secured a job at Anthropic, and
@Jacob G-W (MATS 6.0) also accepted an offer from Anthropic!
We likewise have a strong track record in research outputs, including
I really like Team Shard’s focus on solving big problems that other people are missing. This focus resulted in me doing work that I think is much more impactful than I would have otherwise done. Being in Team Shard is also really fun.
Alex Turner and Alex Cloud provided consistently thoughtful guidance and inspiration that enabled my progress. I also had a ton of fun with the team :)
Being a member of Team Shard helped me grow tremendously as a researcher. It gave me the necessary skills and confidence to work in AI Safety full-time.
— Jacob Goldman-Wetzler. MATS 6.0, primary author of Gradient Routing, now working at Anthropic
The mentors are ambitious and set high expectations, but are both super friendly and go out of their way to create a healthy, low-stress atmosphere amongst the team, ideal for brainstorming and collaboration. This collaborative environment, combined with their strong high-level research taste, has consistently led to awesome research outputs.
My time on Team Shard set the bar for what a productive collaboration should look like.
Apply for MATS mentorship at Team Shard before October 2nd. Alex Cloud (@cloud) and I run this MATS stream together. We help alignment researchers grow from seeds into majestic trees. We have fun, consistently make real alignment progress, and have a dedicated shitposting channel.
Our mentees have gone on to impactful jobs, including (but not limited to)
@lisathiergart (MATS 3.0) moved on to being a research lead at MIRI and now a senior director at the SL5 task force,
@cloud (MATS 6.0) went from mentee to co-mentor in one round and also secured a job at Anthropic, and
@Jacob G-W (MATS 6.0) also accepted an offer from Anthropic!
We likewise have a strong track record in research outputs, including
Pioneering steering vectors for use in LLMs (Steering GPT-2-XL by adding an activation vector),
Masking Gradients to Localize Computation in Neural Networks, and
Distillation Robustifies Unlearning.
Our team culture is often super tight-knit and fun. For example, in this last MATS round, we lifted together every Wednesday and Thursday.
Apply here before October 2nd. (Don’t procrastinate, and remember the planning fallacy!)
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