“Directly Try Solving Alignment for 5 weeks” by Kabir Kumar
The Moonshot Alignment Program is a 5-week research sprint from August 2nd to September 6th, focused on the hard part of alignment: finding methods to get an AI to do what we want and not what don't want, which we have strong evidence will scale to superintelligence. You’ll join a small team, choose a vetted research direction, and run experiments to test whether your approach actually generalizes.
Mentors include: @Abram Demski @Cole Wyeth
Research Assistants include: Leonard Piff, Péter Trócsányi
Apply before July 27th. The first 300 applicants are guaranteed personalised feedback. 166 Applicants so far.
For this program, we have four main tracks:
- Agent Foundations Theory: Build formal models of agents and value formation.
- Applied Agent Foundations: Implement and test agent models.
- Neuroscience-based AI Alignment: Design architectures inspired by how the brain encodes values.
- Improved Preference Optimization: Build oversight methods that embed values deeply and scale [...]
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Outline:
(01:35) How does the program work?
(02:08) Eligibility
(02:50) Our Application Process
(02:57) Stage 1: Expression of Interest
(03:25) Stage 2: Knowledge Check
(03:57) Stage 3: Team Formation and Idea Submission
(04:31) Attend our Demo Day
(05:04) How much does it cost to attend the demo day?
(05:33) Testimonials
(05:38) Martin Leitgab
(06:30) Shruti Datta Gupta
(07:36) Abby Lupi
(08:34) Anya Decarlo
(09:17) Nataliia Povarova
(10:38) Luke Chambers
(11:12) James Hindmarch
(11:40) Areal (Ari) Tal
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First published:
July 21st, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/abd9ufFpLrn5kvnLn/directly-try-solving-alignment-for-5-weeks
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