2024 Pivotal Fellows

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    Kristina Fort

    The AI Safety Institutes and International AI Coordination

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    Jonathan Gibson

    Which confidence-building measures are most politically viable for US-China Track II AI dialogues?

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    Diogo Cruz

    Understanding the learned look-ahead behavior of chess neural networks

  • Meenakshi Balan

    Modeling pre-superhuman persuasion risks from agentic systems

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    Aidan Homewood

    Third-party auditing of frontier models: case studies from non-AI industries

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    Felix Porée

    Understanding apocalyptic bioterrorism and its effects on rational deterrence theories

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    Monika Jotautaite

    LLM moral value evaluations

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    Lennart Finke

    Guarding Democracies with Evaluations of Political Persuasion

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    Jakub Krys

    Transferability of adversarial attacks between modalities of vision-language models

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    Jeanne Salle

    Predicting models capabilities through observational scaling laws

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    Joss Oliver

    The Multi-agent Dynamics of Elliott Thornley's TD-agents

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    Luise Woehlke

    Will the US Government Control the First AGI?—Lessons From History

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    Michel Justen

    Sharing the AI Windfall: A Strategic Approach to International Benefit-Sharing

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    Natasha Karner

    Runaway Military AI: Governance Initiatives for AI in the Military Domain