• Adam Khoja

    FIRST PLACE

    Adam is a second-year undergraduate studying Math and Computer Science at UC Berkeley, where he is excited to continue engaging with AI Safety research.

  • Gabriel Wu

    SECOND PLACE

    Gabe is a sophomore at Harvard interested in theoretical computer science and technical AI safety research. In his spare time, he enjoys dancing, blogging, and reading Spanish literature.

Prize Winners

  • Yash Dave

    $500 PRIZE

    Yash is a UC Berkeley sophomore intending to major in Applied Math and Data Science, minoring in Public Policy. In addition to tinkering with NLP and philosophy in his free time, he likes going on hikes, playing water polo, and is involved with the Debating Society of Berkeley.

  • Chinmay Deshpande

    $500 PRIZE

    Chinmay Deshpande is an undergraduate at Harvard studying philosophy and neuroscience. Among other things, he is interested in exploring how cognitive science can contribute to alignment research.

  • Harrison Gietz

    $500 PRIZE

    Harrison is studying math and computer science at Louisiana State University, where he runs the local EA group. His interests include longtermism, tap dance, rock climbing, and trying to not get turned into paperclips.

  • Callum McDougall

    $500 PRIZE
    I have recently finished a four-year maths degree at Cambridge, having spent the last year engaging more with the EA community and AI safety as a field. I'm very interested in field-building and distilling. I also enjoy rock-climbing and making computational art (-:

  • Sasha Sato

    $500 PRIZE

    Sasha Sato is a student and an effective altruist looking to change the world. Ey is interested in ideas, systems, and gaining both information and frameworks with which to better model and understand the world. Feel free to contact em to talk about any of those things!

  • Stephen Casper

    $250 PRIZE

    Stephen is a first-year Ph.D student at MIT in Computer Science advised by Dylan Hadfield-Menell. His main focus is in developing tools for more interpretable and robust AI. Research interests of his include interpretability, adversaries, robust reinforcement learning, and decision theory. His website is https://stephencasper.com/.

  • Gabriel Mukobi

    $250 PRIZE

    Gabriel Mukobi is an undergraduate student studying computer science at Stanford University. He helps organize Stanford Effective Altruism and Stanford AI Alignment, and he intends to pursue a career in empirical AI alignment research.

  • Jack Parker

    $250 PRIZE

    I'm a former math teacher and am currently transitioning into the AI safety field. I tentatively plan to work full-time as an AI safety distiller/educator after I finish my master's in machine learning at Duke, which starts Fall 2022. Currently, I'm working on creating a distillation of Infra-Bayesianism through the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative Summer Research Fellowship. Please reach out to me if you would like to chat!

  • Nina Rimsky

    $250 PRIZE

    Bioengineering student at Imperial in London, interested in software development, AI alignment, and entrepreneurship.

  • Alexandre Variengien

    $250 PRIZE

    I'm a computer science master's student at ENS de Lyon in France, currently in a double diploma program at EPFL, in Switzerland. I'm interested in working on AI safety technical research, and I'm especially excited to contribute in developing interpretability methods for large ML systems.

  • Jasper Day

    $500 PRIZE

  • Fabien Roger

    $250 PRIZE

    Fabien is a French student, studying AI, and currently working on interpretability

  • Rauno Arike

  • Neil Crawford

  • Thomas Larsen

Honorable Mentions

 

Aidan O’Gara

Sara-Grace Lein

Bruno Neira