Megan Kinniment
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Alignment Research Center
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Research
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1 - 100 Employee
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Member of Technical Staff
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Mar 2023 - Present
Berkeley, California, United States https://evals.alignment.org/
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Center on Long-Term Risk
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United Kingdom
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Research Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Visiting Research Fellow
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Feb 2022 - Mar 2023
London, England, United Kingdom Did Machine Learning Safety Scholars program alongside other learning, as well as occasional post writing.
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Summer Research Fellow
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Aug 2021 - Nov 2021
Game theory, mathematica, modelling conflict. Explored a model of conflict with game theory. Learnt Mathematica to help with modelling. Independently came up with a framework for categorising certain types of agents based on the compatibility of their goals with other agents.
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Future of Humanity Institute (Oxford University)
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United Kingdom
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Research
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1 - 100 Employee
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Research Assistant
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Apr 2021 - Jul 2021
Worked on a project with Ben Snodin investigating how academic fields emerge out of obscurity and grow into self-sustaining fields. Reviewed relevant literature and conducted case studies into the historical development of a few select fields.
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Research Assistant
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Dec 2020 - Mar 2021
Assisted on a project investigating ways in which malevolent actors could increase the likelihood of poor AI outcomes. Mostly detangling psychology literature.
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Summer Research Fellow
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Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
Oxford, England, United Kingdom Investigated what factors affect how different beings are perceived morally. Conducted a literature review on the intersection between a few different research areas (moral psychology, person-based theories of prejudice, secondary transfer effects).
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1Day Sooner
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Civic and Social Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Research Volunteer
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May 2020 - Jul 2020
During my Master's I helped work on a paper investigating potential use cases for human challenge trials in COVID-19 vaccine development. Paper was published in Clinical Infectious Diseases (DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa935)
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Oxehealth
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United Kingdom
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Mental Health Care
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1 - 100 Employee
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Summer Research Intern
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Jul 2019 - Sep 2019
Oxford, England, United Kingdom Used Python for data analysis and learnt JavaScript from scratch to make a web-based data visualisation tool for easily viewing selections of collected data.
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Education
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University of Oxford
Master's degree, Physics