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MATS currently has more people interested in being mentors than we are able to support—for example, for the Winter 2024-25 Program, we received applications from 87 prospective mentors who cumulatively asked for 223 scholars[1] (for a cohort where we expected to only accept 80 scholars). As a result, we need some process for how to choose which researchers to take on as mentors and how many scholars to allocate each. Our desiderata for the process are as follows: In this post, we describe the process we used to select mentors for the Winter 2024-25 Program, which will be very close to the process we will use to select mentors for the Summer 2025 Program. In a nutshell, we select advisors, who select mentors, who select scholars, who often select specific research projects, in a “chain of trust,” with MATS input and oversight at every stage. This system is designed to ensure that we make reasonable decisions about the scholars, mentors, and, ultimately, the research we support, even if

x MATS mentor selection — LessWrong AI Alignment Fieldbuilding MATS Program Postmortems & Retrospectives Community AI Personal Blog 44 MATS mentor selection by DanielFilan , Ryan Kidd 10th Jan 2025 7 min read 12 44 Introduction MATS currently has more people interested in being mentors than we are able to support—for example, for the Winter 2024-25 Program, we received applications from 87 prospective mentors who cumulatively asked for 223 scholars [1] (for a cohort where we expected to only accept 80 scholars). As a result, we need some process for how to choose which researchers to take on a

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