Jessica Rumbelow: Seed funding for a new AI interpretability research organization
Amount: $195,000.00
Award date: April 14, 2023
Focus area: Technical AI safety research

Jessica Rumbelow seeks funding to start a research organization focusing on AI interpretability tools and methods.

  • The organization aims to develop a system automating interpretability methods for diverse models, leading to commercial applications to sustain long-term research.

  • The goal is to make AI models transparent and understandable, contributing to safer and more accountable AI technologies.

  • Rumbelow has several publications in interpretability and a PhD from the University of St. Andrews.

  • Rumbelow and Chris Watkins also made a few interesting findings in mechanistic interpretability, that received much attention from the AI research community.

Outcomes: Jessica launched Leap Laboratories, an AI startup aiming to advance interpretability in the real world.

Note: this grant was made by the same grantmaking team under the Long-Term Future Fund. Read more about the AI Risk Mitigation Fund Team here.