Hi! I’m Alana.

My goal is to make the future awesome. I currently do AI safety research. I’m on a leave of absence from Stanford University, where I studied Computer Science.

In the past, I have:

• Built systems to catch bad actors for WhatsApp
• Conducted pre-release safety testing on GPT-4 for ARC Evals (now METR)
• Studied worst-case risks from AI at the Center on Long-Term Risk
• Conducted research on the AI alignment problem with Vivek Hebbar via the MATS program

These days, I think about:

• How to test, monitor, secure, and contain powerful future AI systems
• How to build infrastructure and tooling that speed up researchers
• The inner lives of transformers

You might want to…

• Check out alana-utils, my opinionated Python library for LLM-heavy workflows.
• Check out eval-awareness, my ongoing research into LLMs’ ability to discriminate between evaluation and deployment environments.
• Keep up with my every move on GitHub.
• Say hi! (My email address is hi @ my-second-level-domain (dot) my-top-level-domain). I’d love to hear about what you’ve been working on and/or thinking about.