Allen Lu

Allen is the Founder & Executive Director of Mycelium, an organization working to make AI go well for all sentient beings through technical AI safety research & engineering. Currently, the org focuses on benchmarking, evals, and other alignment efforts through training data and SFT. Recent work involved developing MANTA, a multi-turn adversarial benchmark for measuring animal welfare values in frontier models: https://www.mantabench.org/ Concurrently, Allen is working with the NYU Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy as a Technical Evals Researcher with Jeff Sebo and advisors from Google Deepmind. Previously, he led programming efforts at Collider, NYC's coworking hub for AI safety and other high-impact work. He has also facilitated the AGI strategy course for Bluedot, as well as AIxAnimals fellowships for Sentient Futures and Electric Sheep. He was also a mentor in a previous iteration of SPAR. Before transitioning into AI safety, he worked as a software engineer in creative technology.

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https://projectmycelium.ai/

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Emergent alignment: generalizing narrow values OOD

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