Definition
Plain language
A training program that helps new researchers get into AI safety work.
As stated in the literature
ML Alignment & Theory Scholars — a research fellowship program; several papers in this corpus list MATS-affiliated authors collaborating with frontier labs.
Why it matters: It helps bring new talent into AI safety research, widening the pool of people working on making AI systems trustworthy.
For example, a recent graduate interested in AI safety might join this program to work alongside experienced researchers and frontier labs.
Heard on the show
“Six authors, mostly from the alignment world — Oxford, Toronto, TruthfulAI, MATS, a couple of Anthropic and Berkeley connections.”Episode 043 — When 'This Is False' Doesn't Stick: Why Models Learn the Lie Anyway