Tübingen ELLIS mentor recommends three AI safety students for MATS interviews
maksym_andr · x · 2026-10-12
A mentor at ELLIS Institute Tübingen publicly recommends three of his students applying to MATS, each with strong AI safety track records:
- Ben Rank: PostTrainBench, InferenceBench, performative RL
- David Schmotz: Skill-Inject, Stolen Thoughts, instrumental evasion, trace tampering
- Lena Libon: ResearchArena, fine-tuning against probes, antidistillation sampling
He urges MATS mentors to interview all three, citing their strong technical backgrounds and deep AI safety knowledge.
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