Team

Owain Evans

Director and Research Lead

Owain is also an affiliate at 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 serves on the Board of Directors.

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Jan Betley

Research Scientist

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.

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Johannes Treutlein

Research Scientist

Johannes was previously a Member of Technical Staff on Anthropic's alignment team. He is on leave from a PhD in computer science at UC Berkeley, supervised by Stuart Russell.

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Anna Sztyber-Betley

Research Scientist (part-time)

Anna has a PhD in Automatic Control and Robotics and is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Mechatronics, Warsaw University of Technology.
She collaborates with Truthful AI on AI Safety projects related to out-of-context reasoning in LLMs.

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Alumni

James Chua

Research Scientist (Alumni)

James was the second employee at Truthful AI and contributed to many projects. He is now a research scientist in alignment science at Anthropic.

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Current and Past Mentees

These are mentees that Owain Evans has mentored, as part of making AI Safety papers. If you are interested in working as a mentee, please register for the Astra Fellowship.