Research Scientist Websites

Alexander Matt Turner is also known as TurnTrout. TurnTrout enjoys writing about and learning about lots of stuff. Altruism is important to TurnTrout, who is vegan because they believe it is wrong to torture animals for minor selfish benefit. TurnTrout loves geese. They have taken the "10% Pledge," and will donate at least 10% of their post-tax income to effective charities. TurnTrout can be contacted via email at alex@turntrout.com.

Ethan Perez leads the adversarial robustness team at Anthropic, where he focuses on reducing existential risks from AI systems. He contributed to the development of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). He also helped demonstrate that state-of-the-art AI safety training techniques do not ensure safety against sleeper agents. Ethan received a best paper award at ICML 2024. He received his PhD from NYU under the supervision of Kyunghyun Cho and Douwe Kiela and was funded by NSF and Open Philanthropy. He has previously worked at DeepMind, Facebook AI Research, Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, and Google. He was named one of Forbes’s 30 Under 30 in AI.