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Maksym Andriushchenko

Maksym Andriushchenko

This stream focuses on critical challenges in AI safety and alignment, including risks from automating AI research, bottlenecks to recursive self-improvement, and the automation of safety and alignment research. Priority topics also include AGI privacy, measuring long-horizon agentic capabilities, developing new alignment methods, and advancing the science of post-training.

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Stream overview

I'm interested in all areas of AI safety and alignment, but my priority directions are:

  • Risks from automating AI research
  • Bottlenecks to recursive self-improvement
  • Automating safety and alignment research
  • AGI privacy
  • Measuring long-horizon agentic capabilities
  • New alignment methods
  • Science of post-training
Mentorship style:

Standard (1-2 hours of weekly 1:1s)

London location preference:

Weak preference

Berkeley location preference:

Strong preference

Mentors

Maksym Andriushchenko
ELLIS Institute Tübingen
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Principal Investigator (AI Safety and Alignment Group)
Misalignment Science
AI Control and Monitoring
Capability and Propensity Evaluations
AI 系统安全
AI 技术治理

I am a principal investigator at the ELLIS Institute Tübingen and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, where I lead the AI Safety and Alignment group. I also serve as chapter lead for the new edition of the International AI Safety Report chaired by Prof. Yoshua Bengio. I have worked on AI safety with leading organizations in the field (OpenAI, Anthropic, UK AI Safety Institute, Center for AI Safety, Gray Swan AI). I obtained my PhD in machine learning from EPFL in 2024 advised by Prof. Nicolas Flammarion. My PhD thesis was awarded the Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize for the best thesis in the CS department of EPFL and was supported by the Google and Open Phil AI PhD Fellowships.

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Fellows we are looking for

  • Prior research experience in a topic related to AI safety (at least one completed project with first-author contribution)
  • Independent, self-driven personality
  • Strong general computer science background
  • Ideally, a good software engineering background
  • Familiarity with deep learning frameworks
  • Clear communication

Project selection

I would prefer to set the overall direction, but I will listen closely to scholars about their preferences within a broad direction. Converging on a particular topic is expected to be a collaborative process.