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several teams from the prev hackathon are continuing to work on alignment evals and doing good work (one presenting to a gov security body, another making a new eval on alignment faking)
if i can get several new teams to exist who are working on trying to get values actually into models, with rigour, that seems very valuable to me
also, got a sponsorship deal with youtuber who makes technical deep learning videos, with 25K subscribers, he's said he'll be making a full video about the program.
also, people are gonna be contacting their deans/department chairs about the program - one already has, said dean was interested and she might email the professors herself.
If you or someone you know, might be interested in funding this, please let me know.