Work on this with us
The institute is built for collaboration: shared instruments, explicit protocols, and research objects designed to be replicated, criticised, and extended.
Collaboration is welcome across the institute's four programmes: mechanistic interpretability (probes, SAEs, circuit analysis), model cognition (situational and evaluation awareness, chain-of-thought faithfulness, introspection), alignment auditing and activation-level experimentation, interactive research interfaces (the instruments this site is built around), model entrenchment (case coding, institutional analysis, compute economics), and research engineering (TransformerLens/SAELens pipelines, in-browser model tooling).
Collaborate on a study
The E1–E4 experiments in Model Entrenchment are specified and unclaimed: matched-pair probing, steering interventions, and a pre-registered case-coding dataset. Co-design and co-author.
Email with subject "Collaborate on a study"Replicate a result
Pick a canonical result from the Interpretability Map and replicate it, the map's protocols section tells you which models and libraries you need. Deviations and failures are publishable here.
Email with subject "Replicate a result"Build an instrument
Three instruments are specified and waiting for an engineer: the Evaluation Awareness Testbed, the Probe vs SAE Benchmark, and the Entrenchment Simulator.
Email with subject "Build an instrument"Review a working paper
Adversarial review is a contribution. Read Model Entrenchment and try to break the framework, the falsification criteria are stated, so the target is clear.
Email with subject "Review a working paper"Contribute a research question
The field map arranges the institute's open questions across four layers. If you can state a question, the observation that would answer it, and why existing work doesn't, send it.
Email with subject "Research question"Join as a research engineer
If you want to build research tooling as a collaborator, with full credit on everything you touch, start here.
Email with subject "Research engineering"[email protected]. Include what you want to work on and what you've built or written.