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MATS Winter 2023-24 Retrospective — LessWrong

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Co-Authors: @Rocket, @Ryan Kidd, @LauraVaughan, @McKennaFitzgerald, @Christian Smith, @Juan Gil, @Henry Sleight The ML Alignment & Theory Scholars program (MATS) is an education and research mentorship program for researchers entering the field of AI safety. This winter, we held the fifth iteration of the MATS program, in which 63 scholars received mentorship from 20 research mentors. In this post, we motivate and explain the elements of the program, evaluate our impact, and identify areas for improving future programs. Key details about the Winter Program: Key takeaways from scholar impact evaluation: Key takeaways from mentor impact evaluation: Key changes we plan to make for future cohorts: MATS expands the talent pipeline for AI safety research by empowering scholars to work on AI safety at existing organizations, found new organizations, or pursue independent research. To this end, MATS connects scholars with senior research mentors and reduces the barriers for these mentors to ta

x MATS Winter 2023-24 Retrospective — LessWrong AI Alignment Fieldbuilding MATS Program Postmortems & Retrospectives Personal Blog 92 MATS Winter 2023-24 Retrospective by utilistrutil , LauraVaughan , deus_ex_maki , Christian Smith , Juan Gil , Henry Sleight , Matthew Wearden , Ryan Kidd 11th May 2024 59 min read 28 92 Co-Authors: @Rocket , @LauraVaughan , @McKennaFitzgerald , @Christian Smith , @Juan Gil , @Henry Sleight , @Matthew Wearden , @Ryan Kidd The ML Alignment & Theory Scholars program (MATS) is an education and research mentorship program for researchers entering the field of AI saf

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