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Callum McDougall

Karma: 435

I’m Callum—I founded the ARENA program for technical AI safety upskilling, I’ve also worked on various open source mech interp things. I was in Anthropic’s interp team for ~6 months (working on some of their recent papers) and I’m currently doing interp at DeepMind. I like mathematical art, running, climbing, and most importantly I hold a Guinness World Record for the largest number of clothespegs held in one hand at once (yep, really).

New Cause Area Proposal

Callum McDougallApr 1, 2025, 7:12 AM
48 points
2 commentsEA link

AI Align­ment Re­search Eng­ineer Ac­cel­er­a­tor (ARENA): Call for ap­pli­cants v4.0

JamesFoxJul 6, 2024, 11:51 AM
7 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

How ARENA course ma­te­rial gets made

Callum McDougallJul 2, 2024, 7:27 AM
12 points
0 commentsEA link

A Selec­tion of Ran­domly Selected SAE Features

Callum McDougallApr 1, 2024, 9:09 AM
25 points
2 commentsEA link

AI Align­ment Re­search Eng­ineer Ac­cel­er­a­tor (ARENA): call for applicants

Callum McDougallNov 7, 2023, 9:43 AM
46 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

ARENA 2.0 - Im­pact Report

Callum McDougallSep 26, 2023, 5:13 PM
17 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

An Anal­ogy for Un­der­stand­ing Transformers

Callum McDougallMay 13, 2023, 12:20 PM
7 points
0 commentsEA link

AI Align­ment Re­search Eng­ineer Ac­cel­er­a­tor (ARENA): call for applicants

Callum McDougallApr 17, 2023, 8:30 PM
41 points
2 commentsEA link

AI Risk In­tro 2: Solv­ing The Problem

L Rudolf LSep 24, 2022, 9:33 AM
11 points
0 comments28 min readEA link
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AI Risk In­tro 1: Ad­vanced AI Might Be Very Bad

L Rudolf LSep 11, 2022, 10:57 AM
22 points
0 comments30 min readEA link

Join ASAP (AI Safety Ac­countabil­ity Pro­gramme)

Callum McDougallSep 10, 2022, 11:15 AM
54 points
20 comments3 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing the Ex­is­ten­tial Risks In­tro­duc­tory Course (ERIC)

nandiniAug 19, 2022, 3:57 PM
57 points
14 comments7 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Distil­la­tion for Align­ment Practicum (DAP)

Jonas Hallgren 🔸Aug 18, 2022, 10:31 PM
20 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

MIRI Con­ver­sa­tions: Tech­nol­ogy Fore­cast­ing & Grad­u­al­ism (Distil­la­tion)

Callum McDougallJul 13, 2022, 10:45 AM
27 points
9 comments19 min readEA link

Skil­ling-up in ML Eng­ineer­ing for Align­ment: re­quest for comments

Callum McDougallApr 24, 2022, 6:40 AM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

How I use Anki: ex­pand­ing the scope of SRS

Callum McDougallApr 12, 2022, 8:40 AM
17 points
2 comments19 min readEA link

Where’s WALY?

Callum McDougallApr 2, 2022, 2:03 AM
29 points
1 comment1 min readEA link