MATS Research

Sam Bowman

@sleepinyourhat

AI alignment + LLMs at Anthropic. On leave from NYU. Views not employers'. No relation to @s8mb. Into @givingwhatwecan.

Ethan Perez

@EthanJPerez

Alignment team lead at Anthropic

Rylan Schaeffer

@RylanSchaeffer

AI RS @ Meta TBD. On-Leave from Stanford w/ @sanmikoyejo. Prev @ Gemini, Meta, MIT, Harvard, Uber, UCL, UC Davis

Trenton Bricken

@TrentonBricken

Trying to make AI go well @AnthropicAI

Zhijing Jin

@ZhijingJin

Prof @UofTCompSci. Director @JinesisLab. Founder @EuroSafeAI. Scientist@MPI_IS w/ @bschoelkopf. @CausalNLP, NLP4SocialGood @NLP4SG. Mentor&mentee @ACLMentorship

david rein

@idavidrein

sentio ergo sum. researcher @METR_Evals, prev @cohere

Cem Anil

@cem__anil

Machine learning / AI Safety at @AnthropicAI and University of Toronto / Vector Institute. Prev. @google (Blueshift Team) and @nvidia.

Samuel Albanie 🇬🇧

@SamuelAlbanie

frontier evals lead for gemini @GoogleDeepMind

Nathan Labenz

@labenz

AI Scout, building text-2-video @Waymark, host of The Cognitive Revolution podcast

Sonia Joseph

@soniajoseph_

interpretable video world models @AIatMeta

Maksym Andriushchenko

@maksym_andr

Principal investigator at @ELLISInst_Tue & @MPI_IS, mentor at @MATSprogram, PhD from @EPFL. Past works: AgentHarm, OS-Harm, HalluHard, PostTrainBench, Claudini.

Tu Vu

@tuvllms

Assistant Professor @VT_CS & @Google (part-time). PhD from @UMass_NLP. Google FLAMe/FreshLLMs/Flan-T5 Collection/SPoT #LLMs #NLProc #AI

Marius Hobbhahn

@MariusHobbhahn

CEO at Apollo Research @apolloaievals prev. ML PhD with Philipp Hennig & AI forecasting @EpochAIResearch

Brydon Eastman

@brhydon

🇨🇦 Mathematician (heavy on the ish) @thinkymachines Prev. MTS @OpenAI; PhD @WaterlooMath Certified wife guy, featured twice in Lego Magazine ©

Vincent Conitzer

@conitzer

AI professor. Director, @FOCAL_lab @CarnegieMellon. Head of Technical AI Engagement, @UniofOxford @EthicsInAI. Author, "Moral AI - And How We Get There."

Eli Lifland

@eli_lifland

AI forecasting and governance @AI_Futures_. Co-author of AI 2027 and the AI Futures Model. Also @aidigest_, @SamotsvetyF. Prev @oughtinc

Ruibo Liu

@RuiboLiu

RS @GoogleDeepMind. AI Research with humans in mind.

Daniel Paleka

@dpaleka

ai safety researcher | phd @CSatETH | https://danielpaleka.com

Shashwat Goel

@ShashwatGoel7

Training AI for Decision Making Past work: Training AI Co-scientists, FutureSim, OpenForecaster, ΔBelief-RL, Measuring Long Horizon Execution

Hidenori Tanaka

@Hidenori8Tanaka

Group Leader, Physics of Intelligence Program at Harvard University Physics of Artificial Intelligence Group, NTT Research, Inc.

Andy Masley

@AndyMasley

When the going gets weird the weird turn pro. Researching and writing AI and other topics from a broadly EA perspective. On a grant from CG.

Dr. Roman Yampolskiy

@romanyam

Professor of Computer Science. AI Safety & Security Researcher. For Talks: giacomo@krugercowne.com, Interviews: roman.yampolskiy@louisville.edu

Tom Everitt

@tom4everitt

AGI safety researcher at @GoogleDeepMind, leading http://causalincentives.com switching to https://bsky.app/profile/tom4everitt.bsky.social

Daniel Eth (yes, Eth is my actual last name)

@daniel_271828

Researching effects of automated AI R&D | pro-America, pro-tech, & pro-AI safety

Smoke-away

@SmokeAwayyy

Nostalgia for the Future.

Jason Crawford

@jasoncrawford

I write and speak about the history & philosophy of progress. Founder, @rootsofprogress. Host of the Progress Conference. Author, The Techno-Humanist Manifesto.

Lee Sharkey

@leedsharkey

Scruting matrices @ Goodfire | Previously: cofounded Apollo Research

Daniel Filan

@dfrsrchtwts

Work at METR. Want to usher in an era of human-friendly superintelligence, don't know how. Last name rhymes with smilin'.