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Logan Smith

organization · Logan Riggs Smith

Technical AI safety researchOther

Received
$250,000
from 2 funders
Grants
7
Funders
2
Years active
2021–24

Grants over time

$0$25K$50K$75K$100K2021202220232024

Biggest funders

Long-Term Future Fund$240,00096%6
Jaan Tallinn$10,0004%1

Grants received

DateFunderViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Jul 2024Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$40,000Interpretabilityea_funds6 month stipend for SAE-circuits
Jan 2024Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$40,000Interpretabilityea_funds6-month stipend for Sparse Autoencoder Mech Interp projects
Jul 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$40,000Interpretabilityea_funds6 month salary for further pursuing sparse autoencoders for automatic feature finding
Jan 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$40,000Interpretabilityea_funds6-month salary to interpret neurons in language models & build tools to accelerate this process. The aim is to understand all features and circuits in a model and use this understanding to predict out of distribution performance in high-stake situations.
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$40,000Alignment methodsea_funds6-month salary for continued work on shard theory: studying how inner values are formed by outer reward schedules
Jan 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$40,000Technical AI safety researchea_fundsSupport to create language model (LM) tools to aid alignment research through feedback and content generation
Jul 25, 2021Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Projects$10,000Otherjaan_onlineLearning mathematics for infra-bayesian research