Victoria Krakovna (GDM stream)

• Collaborative software engineering: You are comfortable writing high-quality code independently and quickly. You are fluent in standard software engineering practices, e.g. version control. You can navigate a codebase written not entirely by you and can build on it productively.
• Familiarity with deceptive alignment, safety cases, capability evaluations, AI control, and related topics. This makes it much easier for us to be on the same page about the goals of the project, and is important for making day-to-day project decisions in a conceptually sound way.
• Conceptual research ability: You can come up with ideas for interesting experiments that align with the project plan. You prioritise well.
• Good communication, team player: You can clearly communicate your research ideas, experimental methodology, results, etc, verbally or in writing (writing is more important). You can notice and express confusion, uncertainty, disagreement, or dissatisfaction and are willing to work through conflicts. You impartially consider other people’s ideas, disagree respectfully, can admit when you’re wrong, and are willing to commit to the team’s direction.

Scholars will be working together in team(s).