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Hey - I'm Rohan, a second-year undergraduate studying PPE at Merton.
Currently I'm working on AI safety investments at Macroscopic Ventures, and exploring how information security and compute governance could reduce catastrophic misuse risks of more powerful frontier AI models. Outside of AI, I'm a big fan of bouldering and gardening, and I'd be excited to chat about any & all of the above, or whatever big or small questions you're thinking about at the moment!

Hi, I'm Matthew! I'm a DPhil in Computer Science at Magdalen. I came to Oxford to deepen my understanding of technology and its future and to broaden my understanding of society and its history, in order to help these things work better together.
My current technical research is on understanding emergent agency in reinforcement learning. In the past, I have worked on developmental interpretability and singular learning theory, goal misgeneralisation, neural network geometry, and inverse reinforcement learning. I'm excited to meet students and researchers across Oxford who are studying and working on all topics relevant to the future of AI and society.

Hi, I'm James, a first-year MPhil in Economics at Balliol.
I did my undergrad, also in Economics, at the other place, where I found out about AI safety and catastrophic risk through the uni's effective altruism community. Through the ERA:AI fellowship, I pursued a project on "risk compensation in AI deployment" -- the possibility that safety-promoting measures might have limited effect if they incentivise greater or more reckless deployment of new models. Aside from that, I've done short projects on modelling AI's effect on the labour market for software engineers and considering the possibility for "races to the bottom" between AI evals orgs, drawing on the auditing literature.
At OAISI, I help run programmes which introduce people to these ideas. Please reach out to chat about anything that takes your fancy!

Hi, I'm Louis! I'm in my masters year doing Computer Science and Philosophy at Oxford, and my main interests include AI [control / safety / ethics], game theory, and cooperative AI. I've previously worked on the following projects (in order of recency): cooperation and alignment in multi-agent games (current project); AI-Control games; behavioural evaluations of deception in LLMs; and active learning in LLMs.
I'm always up for talking about all things CS, philosophy (particularly AI-relevant topics but also continental philosophy), and other entirely-not-work-related stuff like music and games!

Hi, I'm Arjun, a first-year undergraduate studying Computer Science and Philosophy at Christ Church.
I previously contracted for METR where I helped develop evaluations for AI R&D. At Oxford, I help run OAISI projects (an AI safety focused coworking group) and Oxhack (Oxford's annual student-led hackathon). I’d be interested in talking to you about the role of evals in AI safety , forecasting AI capabilities or anything that you're passionate about - I find most topics fascinating once I'm shown the right perspective! If you're in Oxford, I'd love to play chess, squash or go climbing with you.

Hi, I'm Nick! I'm a third-year CS and Philosophy student, currently on leave to work with the AI Futures Project, who recently released AI 2027. I'm interested in a bunch of areas in AI safety - I've done some mechanistic interpretability and priorities work previously and was a research assistant in the Human Information Processing lab here in Oxford. I'm also involved in running [orchard], a group for people to work on their passion projects. Feel free to reach out if you want to chat about AI safety, philosophy, or anything else!