INTERVIEW: Applications w/ Alice Rigg

Alice Rigg, a mechanistic interpretability researcher from Ottawa, Canada, joins me to discuss their path and the applications process for research/mentorship programs.

Join the Mech Interp Discord server and attend reading groups at 11:00am on Wednesdays (Mountain Time)!

Check out Alice’s website.

Links

Links to all articles/papers which are mentioned throughout the episode can be found below, in order of their appearance.

• EleutherAI
  • Join the public EleutherAI discord server
• Distill
• Effective Altruism (EA)
• MATS Retrospective Summer 2023 post
• Ambitious Mechanistic Interpretability AISC research plan by Alice Rigg
• SPAR
• Stability AI
  • During their most recent fundraising round, Stability AI had a valuation of $4B (Bloomberg)
• Mech Interp Discord Server