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Research Associate
Research Associate
Palisade ResearchBerkeley, CA
AI safety & policy
Full-time
AI safety & policy
Full-time
Salary
$100,000 - $200,000 per year
Routes to impact
Direct high impact on an important cause
Skill-building & building career capital
Description
Update and extend existing research on frontier AI capabilities and behavior, correcting weaknesses and publishing updated findings.
  • Extend past experiments to newer models, variant prompts, improved scaffolding and stronger baselines
  • Review past research for errors and quality issues, using frontier LLMs for critique and re-testing
  • Engage with external work critiquing the findings and fold useful ideas into updated evaluations
  • Write and publish updates, corrections and extensions as preprints and LessWrong posts
  • Maintain research integrity through reproducibility and clear documentation of methods and limitations
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