Marius Hobbhahn: 9-month stipend for independent research on AI safety parallel to their PhD
Amount: $30,103.00
Award date: July 1, 2022
Focus area: Technical research
Hobbhahn conducted independent AI safety research alongside their PhD at IMPRS-IS Tübingen
Hobbhahn had a good track record for publishing AI safety research in the form of posts on the Alignment Forum. They were also part of the German Scholarship Foundation, which is a highly selective program supporting gifted students.
Outcomes: Hobbhahn published several novel papers in collaboration with top researchers (listed below), and went on to found Apollo Research, a promising AI safety nonprofit focussed on model evaluations and interpretability, which has recently partnered with the UK government’s Frontier AI Taskforce.
Note: this grant was made by the same grantmaking team under the Long-Term Future Fund. Read more about the AI Risk Mitigation Fund Team here.