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PhD Candidate, Causal Foundations of Mechanistic Interpretability
PhD Candidate, Causal Foundations of Mechanistic Interpretability
University of CopenhagenCopenhagen, Denmark
AI safety & policy
Full-time
Deadline soon
AI safety & policy
Full-time
Deadline soon
Deadline
2026-11-15
Routes to impact
Skill-building & building career capital
Testing your fit for a certain career path
Description
Research language-model representations to identify mechanisms relevant to generalization, robustness, and AI safety in a PhD project.
  • Study the causal foundations of mechanistic interpretability
  • Investigate when language-model representations reveal meaningful mechanisms
  • Focus on links to generalization, robustness, and AI safety
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