“In 2023, I popularized steering vectors as a cheap way to control model outputs at inference time.”In their own words: turntrout.com
AI alignment researcher (TurnTrout) known for power-seeking theory, shard theory and activation steering; formerly at Google DeepMind.
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Received $482k from 2 funders
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9 grants totalling $482k, newest first.
2026 1 grant · $9k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2026 | Corrigibility Research Fund | $9k | Retroactive prize (Round Zero): earlier corrigibility work; listed in the 30 Sep 2026 prizes post source |
2023 3 grants · $375k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2023 | Long-Term Future Fund | $220k | April 2023 payout report (Jan 2022–Apr 2023): Year-long stipend for shard theory and RL mechanistic interpretability research (approved, not yet paid at time of report) source |
| Apr 2023 | Long-Term Future Fund | $40k | EA Funds grants database (2023 Q2): Conference publication of interpretability and LM-steering results source |
| Mar 2023 | Long-Term Future Fund | $115k | April 2023 payout report (Jan 2022–Apr 2023): Research on writing new motivations into a policy network via decision-influences source |
2022 2 grants · $8k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2022 | Long-Term Future Fund | $7k | EA Funds grants database (2022 Q1): PhD Stipend Top Up for CHAI PhD Student. source |
| Jan 2022 | Long-Term Future Fund | $1k | The grants database gives the following intended use of funds: "Ad campaign for "Optimal Policies Tend To Seek Power" to ML researchers on Twitter". From Vipul Naik's donations database (via OpenBook) source |
2021 1 grant · $30k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2021 | Long-Term Future Fund | $30k | May 2021 payout report (Nov 2020 round to Apr 2021): Formalizing the side effect avoidance problem source |
2020 1 grant · $30k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2020 | Long-Term Future Fund | $30k | September 2020 payout report (paid 4 Sep 2020): When proposed AI designs seek power over their environment source |
2019 1 grant · $30k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2019 | Long-Term Future Fund | $30k | April 2019 payout report (paid 21 Mar 2019): 'Limited Agent Foundations' thesis on mild optimisation and corrigibility source |