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    MATS Opens Winter 2027 Applications With Auditing Stream

    Applications opened for the 12-week Winter 2027 fellowship that includes a new auditing and governance stream.

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    The MATS program posted that its Winter 2027 applications are open for a fully-funded 12-week fellowship running January 19 to April 10 in Berkeley and London. The program offers $6.4k monthly stipends plus $8k-16k monthly compute. Patricia Paskov announced a new stream on AI auditing, evaluation standards, and governance, to be mentored by her and Miles Brundage. Other researchers including Nathan Lambert and David Africa also posted they will mentor fellows. Applications close September 6.

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    @MATSprogram🚨 MATS Winter 2027 applications are now open. Fully-funded, 12-week fellowship for aspiring & established AI alignment, interpretability, security, governance researchers & field-builders 📍 Berkeley/London 📅 Jan 19–Apr 10 💰 $6.4k/mo + $8k - 16k/mo compute Apply by Sep 6 ↓
    @ryan_kidd44MATS Winter Program applications are open! Launch your career in AI safety & security (and biosecurity!) with expert mentorship from field-leading researchers and founders and a brilliant cohort of peers. Offices, housing, visas, generous compute, and research stipend included!
    @maksym_andrRT @MATSprogram: 🚨 MATS Winter 2027 applications are now open. Fully-funded, 12-week fellowship for aspiring & established AI alignment, i…
    @Miles_BrundageExcited to be mentoring (w/ @prpaskov) a MATS Fellow this round! Apply here:
    @natolambertI think this’ll be my first MATS cohort I’m mentoring! I’ve met so many wonderful MATS alumni, excited to contribute.
    @prpaskovWant to shape the future of AI auditing? New @MATSprogram stream: AI auditing, eval standards, governance. Mentored by me and @Miles_Brundage via @AVERIorg. Applications open.
    @geoffreyirvingRT @DavidDAfrica: I'll be mentoring for MATS Winter 2027. Come apply! Some things I'd be keen to work on (in addition to what I described o…
    @HaydnBelfieldRT @ryan_kidd44: MATS Winter Program applications are open! Launch your career in AI safety & security (and biosecurity!) with expert mento…
    @niloofar_mireGo work w Owain and the team!!!!
    @RichardMCNgoI’m mentoring again at MATS this winter. The way I select and supervise MATS fellows is very different from what most mentors do; you should consider applying even if (and perhaps especially if) you don’t think of yourself as an “AI safety” person. I select mentees almost entirely for their ability to think clearly about complicated topics. I’ve found that the best signal of this is having written a blog post that teaches me something interesting. I don’t care about applicants’ publication record (and in fact number of published papers is anticorrelated with clarity of thinking amongst top applicants). I am very open to accepting mentees who haven’t done undergrad degrees. My mentees have the freedom to follow any line of inquiry they want. This includes research areas that I’m personally not interested in. The one constraint I apply is that mentees need to be aiming at understanding *something* that seems deeply conceptually interesting to them. A previous mentee spent almost his whole fellowship working on a project which I thought was misguided; I considered this a success because by the end he understood why it was misguided well enough to formulate a new (and very promising) research direction. Having said that, I expect that MATS will be most valuable for both of us if your interests overlap with mine. Fortunately, mine are very broad: they include formal logic, agent foundations, game theory, ethics, sociology, and political philosophy. You can see more on my blog (http://mindthefuture.info). I also want to lower the barrier to people applying, since formal applications can be aversive. If you are the kind of person who procrastinates a lot on applications, you are welcome to email me at richardcngo@gmail.com with the subject line MATS WINTER 2027, attaching some piece of your writing and/or some commentary on one of my blog posts (which is also what I ask for in the main application). I can’t commit to replying to everyone, but if it seems particularly promising for you to then do the main application I’ll tell you so.

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    @MATSprogram🚨 MATS Winter 2027 applications are now open. Fully-funded, 12-week fellowship for aspiring & established AI alignment, interpretability, security, governance researchers & field-builders 📍 Berkeley/London 📅 Jan 19–Apr 10 💰 $6.4k/mo + $8k - 16k/mo compute Apply by Sep 6 ↓
    @ryan_kidd44MATS Winter Program applications are open! Launch your career in AI safety & security (and biosecurity!) with expert mentorship from field-leading researchers and founders and a brilliant cohort of peers. Offices, housing, visas, generous compute, and research stipend included!
    @maksym_andrRT @MATSprogram: 🚨 MATS Winter 2027 applications are now open. Fully-funded, 12-week fellowship for aspiring & established AI alignment, i…
    @Miles_BrundageExcited to be mentoring (w/ @prpaskov) a MATS Fellow this round! Apply here:
    @natolambertI think this’ll be my first MATS cohort I’m mentoring! I’ve met so many wonderful MATS alumni, excited to contribute.
    @prpaskovWant to shape the future of AI auditing? New @MATSprogram stream: AI auditing, eval standards, governance. Mentored by me and @Miles_Brundage via @AVERIorg. Applications open.
    @geoffreyirvingRT @DavidDAfrica: I'll be mentoring for MATS Winter 2027. Come apply! Some things I'd be keen to work on (in addition to what I described o…
    @HaydnBelfieldRT @ryan_kidd44: MATS Winter Program applications are open! Launch your career in AI safety & security (and biosecurity!) with expert mento…
    @niloofar_mireGo work w Owain and the team!!!!
    @RichardMCNgoI’m mentoring again at MATS this winter. The way I select and supervise MATS fellows is very different from what most mentors do; you should consider applying even if (and perhaps especially if) you don’t think of yourself as an “AI safety” person. I select mentees almost entirely for their ability to think clearly about complicated topics. I’ve found that the best signal of this is having written a blog post that teaches me something interesting. I don’t care about applicants’ publication record (and in fact number of published papers is anticorrelated with clarity of thinking amongst top applicants). I am very open to accepting mentees who haven’t done undergrad degrees. My mentees have the freedom to follow any line of inquiry they want. This includes research areas that I’m personally not interested in. The one constraint I apply is that mentees need to be aiming at understanding *something* that seems deeply conceptually interesting to them. A previous mentee spent almost his whole fellowship working on a project which I thought was misguided; I considered this a success because by the end he understood why it was misguided well enough to formulate a new (and very promising) research direction. Having said that, I expect that MATS will be most valuable for both of us if your interests overlap with mine. Fortunately, mine are very broad: they include formal logic, agent foundations, game theory, ethics, sociology, and political philosophy. You can see more on my blog (http://mindthefuture.info). I also want to lower the barrier to people applying, since formal applications can be aversive. If you are the kind of person who procrastinates a lot on applications, you are welcome to email me at richardcngo@gmail.com with the subject line MATS WINTER 2027, attaching some piece of your writing and/or some commentary on one of my blog posts (which is also what I ask for in the main application). I can’t commit to replying to everyone, but if it seems particularly promising for you to then do the main application I’ll tell you so.