MARS London

MARS (Mentorship for Alignment Research Students) is a research programme that pairs students with experienced mentors to work on an AI safety (technical or policy) research project for 2 to 3 months.

The programme will start with an in-person kick-off in London, although we are also open to remote applications, at the start of January and will continue until March, the projects will have a flexible start and end date depending on the project.

Applications are now closed, if you would like to express interest in our future programmes, then you can do so here.

Projects

  • AI Governance: AI Evaluations and Risk Management; Comparative Policy Analysis

    Lisa Soder
    London School of Economics

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  • Mechanistic Interpretability

    Joseph Miller
    FAR AI

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  • Automated Alignment Research

    Bogdan-Ionut Cirstea
    Independent

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  • Dangerous Capability Evals

    Joshua Clymer
    Columbia University

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Program Details

Applications will close on 13th December at midnight. Depending on the projects you apply to, you may receive a coding test or be invited to an interview with the project mentors. We will aim to inform all applicants of the decision by Monday 18th December.

Timeline

  • 13th December - Applications close, late applications accepted until 15th.

  • 18th December - Decisions sent to attendees (some decisions may be slightly later depending on mentors).

  • 8th - 11th January - In-person kick-off in London.

  • 12th January - Project work with frequent collaboration with mentors and teammates.

  • ~22nd March - Estimated programme end date and research Symposium.

The end date will depend on the projects and the size of team, progress, and other requirements from mentors and participants.

This programme is being run in collaboratively with Cambridge AI Safety Hub.

FAQs

  • We are targeting this programme at London-based students so we expect most attendees to have accommodation already. You can let us know if you would require accommodation in the application and we will make a decision based on your fit for the programme & project.
    In some cases we may also accept remote participants.

  • We are likely to prioritise applicants that can attend the whole kick-off in-person although in we may accept participants that can only join for some of it, or completely remote participants.

  • Yes, you can apply to multiple projects in a single application.

  • If you think you would benefit from the programme, we encourage you to apply!
    We expect that the programme will be most useful for graduate and undergraduate students, although we are excited students with a range of backgrounds applying.

Contact info@safeailondon.org if you have any questions