Robert Krzyzanowski

I think this is a no brainer to fund - unfaithful CoT is an important thing to understand (especially given the rise of o1-style models), this dataset seems like a significant improvement over state of the art for studying this phenomena (especially the focus on reproducibility), and the requested amount is small and seems reasonable. I have mentored Rob before and think he's competent and capable of executing on this well.

Conflicts of interest: I've mentored Rob a bunch in the past. This project specifically is largely supervised by Arthur, not me, but I may still be somewhat involved. My bar for spending time on a project is higher than my bar for funding it, so I'm not too concerned about bias/impaired judgement here, especially given the small size of the grant.

**Main points in favor of this grant**

I am excited about more work in the realm of training transparency, and I know that Rob is capable of executing here from having mentored him previously.

**Donor's main reservations**

The main way I could imagine this being a bad idea is if it's not a good use of Rob's time, but I'll defer to his judgement there.

**Process for deciding amount**

I'd likely be willing to fund more than 5k, but I'll cover the full expenses being requested for now.

**Conflicts of interest**

Rob was a mentee of mine in the SERI MATS program.