Callum McDougall

I'm Callum - I founded the ARENA program for technical AI safety upskilling, I've also worked on various open source mech interp things. I was in Anthropic's interp team for ~6 months (working on some of their recent papers) and I'm currently doing interp at DeepMind. I like mathematical art, running, climbing, and most importantly I hold a Guinness World Record for the largest number of clothespegs held in one hand at once (yep, really).

Posts

New Cause Area Proposal
by Callum McDougall @ 2025-04-01 | +48 | 0 comments
How ARENA course material gets made
by Callum McDougall @ 2024-07-02 | +12 | 0 comments
A Selection of Randomly Selected SAE Features
by Callum McDougall @ 2024-04-01 | +25 | 0 comments
AI Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator (ARENA): call for applicants
by Callum McDougall, Kathryn O'Rourke @ 2023-11-07 | +46 | 0 comments
ARENA 2.0 - Impact Report
by Callum McDougall, Kathryn O'Rourke @ 2023-09-26 | +17 | 0 comments
An Analogy for Understanding Transformers
by Callum McDougall @ 2023-05-13 | +7 | 0 comments
AI Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator (ARENA): call for applicants
by Callum McDougall @ 2023-04-17 | +41 | 0 comments
Join ASAP (AI Safety Accountability Programme)
by Callum McDougall @ 2022-09-10 | +54 | 0 comments
MIRI Conversations: Technology Forecasting & Gradualism (Distillation)
by Callum McDougall @ 2022-07-13 | +27 | 0 comments
Skilling-up in ML Engineering for Alignment: request for comments
by Callum McDougall @ 2022-04-24 | +8 | 0 comments
How I use Anki: expanding the scope of SRS
by Callum McDougall @ 2022-04-12 | +17 | 0 comments
Where's WALY?
by Callum McDougall @ 2022-04-02 | +29 | 0 comments