Stream overview

Mentors

Sydney Von Arx
Nightingale
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Technical Staff
SF Bay Area
Misalignment Science
AI Control and Monitoring
Capability and Propensity Evaluations

Sydney works on adversarial stress-testing at METR. She studied computational biology at Stanford and co-founded the Atlas Fellowship.

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Mentorship style

Fellows we are looking for

Project selection

Streams

The Winter 2026 cohort offers a wide range of research streams led by experts across AI alignment, interpretability, governance, and safety. Each stream provides its own research agenda, methodology, and mentorship focus.

Oxford
Theory
AI Welfare
SF Bay Area
Control, Model Organisms, Scheming & Deception, Strategy & Forecasting
SF Bay Area
Theory
Interpretability
Tübingen
Dangerous Capability Evals, Agent Foundations, Adversarial Robustness, Monitoring, Scalable Oversight, Scheming & Deception
SF Bay Area
Policy and Governance
Dangerous Capability Evals, Policy & Governance
New York City
Monitoring, Dangerous Capability Evals, Scalable Oversight, Safeguards
SF Bay Area
Policy and Governance
Strategy & Forecasting, Policy & Governance
Montreal
Agent Foundations, Dangerous Capability Evals, Monitoring, Control, Red-Teaming, Scalable Oversight
SF Bay Area
Control, Model Organisms, Red-Teaming, Scheming & Deception