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Ryan Kidd

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Ryan Kidd

@ryan_kidd44

Building the AI safety & security field @MATSprogram

Berkeley, CA

Joined March 2019

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Ryan Kidd
@ryan_kidd44
May 22
MATS Autumn 2026 applications are live! We also have new Founding & Fieldbuilding and Biosecurity tracks! Come build the AI safety & security institutions of the future!
MATS Research
@MATSprogram
May 13
1/ 🚨 MATS Autumn 2026 applications are now open. 10-week fully-funded fellowship for aspiring AI alignment, security & governance researchers and field-builders. 📍 Berkeley + London 📅 Sep 28 – Dec 4, 2026 💰 $5000/month stipend + $8,000/month compute Apply by June 7 AoE ↓
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Ryan Kidd
@ryan_kidd44
Nov 19, 2023
If OpenAI board fired @sama for straining charter, but market forces put him back, then Moloch wins
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Ryan Kidd
@ryan_kidd44
Aug 29, 2025
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.
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Ryan Kidd
@ryan_kidd44
Apr 8, 2023
Summer applications just launched! Mentors include AI safety researchers from @AnthropicAI, @OpenAI, @deepmind, @MIRIBerkeley, @CHAI_Berkeley, @cais, @FHIOxford, and more! serimats.org
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Ryan Kidd
@ryan_kidd44
Jan 31, 2025
The world is sleeping
Benjamin Todd
@ben_j_todd
Jan 30, 2025
Survey of 900 experts by World Economic Forum reveals they have bizarre views about the biggest global risks. Most severe 10 year risk is extreme weather events??
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Ryan Kidd
@ryan_kidd44
Aug 24, 2025
80% of MATS alumni who completed the program before 2025 are still working on AI safety today, based on a survey of all available alumni LinkedIns or personal websites (242/292 ~ 83%). 10% are working on AI capabilities, but only ~6 on pre-training at a frontier AI company.
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Ryan Kidd
@ryan_kidd44
Jul 30, 2025
In 3.5 years, @MATSprogram has helped produce 115 arXiv publications. Our organizational h-index is 31.
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Ryan Kidd
@ryan_kidd44
Mar 20, 2025
@MATSprogram Summer 2025 applications close Apr 18! Come help advance the fields of AI alignment, security, and governance with mentors including @NeelNanda5 @EthanJPerez @OwainEvans_UK @EvanHub @bshlgrs @dawnsongtweets @DavidSKrueger @RichardMCNgo and more!
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Ryan Kidd
@ryan_kidd44
Dec 21, 2024
OpenAI' latest model, o3, scored: - 2727 on Codeforces, making it the 175th best competitive programmer on Earth - 25% on FrontierMath, where "each problem demands hours of work from expert mathematicians" - 88% on GPQA, where 70% represents PhD-level science knowledge - 88% on
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Ryan Kidd
@ryan_kidd44
Jun 2, 2025
MATS has received mentorship applications from 155 researchers for our Winter 2025 program, far more than we can support. If you run an AI safety or governance program and you want referrals, let me know!
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Ryan Kidd
@ryan_kidd44
Mar 9, 2023
What a week! Both Anthropic and DeepMind shed some light on their AI alignment plans after OpenAI shared their plan in Aug 2022. * Anthropic: anthropic.com/index/core-vie… * DeepMind: lesswrong.com/.../4iEpGXb...… * OpenAI: openai.com/blog/our-appro…
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Ryan Kidd
@ryan_kidd44
Feb 12, 2025
The Paris AI Summit was a staggering failure. Entropy - 1, Humanity - 0
transformernews.ai
The embarrassing failure of the Paris AI Summit
Experts are sounding the alarm — but governments simply won’t listen
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Ryan Kidd
@ryan_kidd44
Jul 23, 2024
First AI alignment paper to win ICML Best Paper! So happy to have helped support this work at @MATSprogram :) Well done, @McHughes288, @danvalentine256, @sleight_henry, @akbirkhan, @EthanJPerez, @sleepinyourhat and coauthors!
akbir.
@akbirkhan
Jul 22, 2024
excited to announce this received an “ICML Best Paper Award”! come see our talk at 10:30 tomorrow
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Ryan Kidd
@ryan_kidd44
Apr 6, 2024
Over 1000 applicants to @MATSprogram; what a milestone! 🎉
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