“Apply to MATS 9.0!” by Ryan Kidd

MATS 9.0 applications are open! Launch your career in AI alignment, governance, and security with our 12-week research program. MATS provides field-leading research mentorship, funding, Berkeley & London offices, housing, and talks/workshops with AI experts.

MATS has accelerated 450+ researchers in the past 3.5 years. 80% of MATS alumni who graduated before 2025 are working on AI safety/security, including 200+ at Anthropic, GoogleDeepMind, OpenAI, UK AISI, RAND, Redwood Research, METR, Apollo Research and more!

10% of MATS alumni who graduated before 2025 co-founded active AI safety/security start-ups, including Apollo Research, Atla AI, Timaeus, Leap Labs, Theorem Labs, Workshop Labs, and more!

In 3.5 years, MATS researchers have coauthored 115+ arXiv papers, with 5200+ citations and an org h-index of 32. We are experts at accelerating awesome researchers with mentorship, compute, support, and community!

MATS connects researchers with world-class mentors, including Sam Bowman, Nicholas Carlini, Neel Nanda, Ethan Perez, Stephen [...]

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First published:
September 10th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WGFT4a37LmJM8f7i8/apply-to-mats-9-0

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