Apply to MATS 9.0!

MATS 9.0 applications are open! Launch your career in AI alignment, governance, and security with our 12-week research program. MATS provides field-leading research mentorship, funding, Berkeley & London offices, housing, and talks/workshops with AI experts.

MATS has accelerated 450+ researchers in the past 3.5 years. 80% of MATS alumni who graduated before 2025 are working on AI safety/security, including 200+ at Anthropic, GoogleDeepMind, OpenAI, UK AISI, RAND, Redwood Research, METR, Apollo Research and more!

10% of MATS alumni who graduated before 2025 co-founded active AI safety/security start-ups, including Apollo Research, Atla AI, Timaeus, Leap Labs, Theorem Labs, Workshop Labs, and more!

In 3.5 years, MATS researchers have coauthored 115+ arXiv papers, with 5200+ citations and an org h-index of 32. We are experts at accelerating awesome researchers with mentorship, compute, support, and community!

MATS connects researchers with world-class mentors, including Sam Bowman, Nicholas Carlini, Neel Nanda, Ethan Perez, Stephen McAleer, Victoria Krakovna, Yo Shavit, Stephen Casper, Buck Shlegeris, Marius Hobbhahn, Richard Ngo, Alex Turner, and more! Jan Leike, Alec Radford, etc. often collaborate as advisors.

Participants rated our last program 9.4/10 on average, with a median of 10/10! 75/98 researchers are continuing in our 6-month extension program. All nationalities are eligible to participate in MATS; ~50% of our scholars are international!

Apply by Oct 2, midnight AoE! Visit the MATS website for detailed information on the program and application process.