Director and Research Lead

Owain is also an affiliate at the CHAI (UC Berkeley) and was previously based at the University of Oxford at the Future of Humanity Institute. He earned his PhD at MIT. He also worked at Ought, where he still serve on the Board of Directors.

Researcher

Jan worked as a software developer for over a decade before shifting to AI safety in 2023. He is an ARENA and Astra Fellowship alumni, interested in anything related to out-of-context reasoning in LLMs.

Researcher

James spent 3 years in a startup developing language models.  He then started doing AI Safety Research under MATS in 2023, and is interested in truthfulness, and reasoning.

MATS Scholar
Daniel Tan is an AI safety researcher. He is currently a MATS 7.0 scholar and PhD student at UCL. He is working on understanding out of context reasoning and is wants to make language model reasoning more transparent.