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Summary

The purpose of this report is to evaluate ARENA 4.0's impact according to our four success criteria:

1. Source high-quality participants
2. Upskill these talented participants in ML skills for AI safety work
3. Integrate participants with the existing AI safety community and legitimise AI safety as a compelling field to work in
4. Accelerate participants’ career transition into AI safety

Overall, this iteration of ARENA was successful according to our success criteria.

• We are happy that our 33 in-person programme participants rated their overall enjoyment of the ARENA programme at 9.1/10.

1. Criteria 1: Our participants were of high calibre, with ten having more than 4 years of experience as software engineers at top companies and four having a PhD-level academic qualification or [...]

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Outline:

(00:18) Summary

(03:06) Programme Information

(03:24) ARENA 4.0 Programme

(04:04) Main Changes

(05:05) Method

(06:00) Criteria 1: Sourcing high-quality participants

(06:24) Selection process

(06:46) Who we selected

(07:35) Improvements

(08:04) Criteria 2: Upskilling

(09:55) Week 0: Fundamentals

(10:43) Week 1: Mechanistic Interpretability

(11:56) Week 2: LLM Evaluations

(14:34) Week 3: Reinforcement Learning

(15:50) Overall Learning Experience

(16:42) Criteria 3: Integration

(20:31) Criteria 4: Career Acceleration

(22:33) Overall Programme Experience

(22:55) Most valuable gain

(26:00) Improvements

(28:47) Acknowledgments

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