Research

Publications from MARS programme participants

The MARS programme pairs aspiring AI safety researchers with experienced mentors, producing research that advances the field. This page collects publications from our participants across cohorts.

MARS 4 Ongoing

MARS 4 Article

Making Extreme AI Risk Tradeable: A New Financial Instrument for Catastrophic AI Risk

Daniel Reti, Gabriel Weil

Published in AI Frontiers

MARS 4 Article

Artificial Intelligence in the States

Kevin Frazier & Antoine Langrée

Published in Law & Liberty

MARS 4 Report

AI Governance Mapping Project

James Teague, Angelica Chowdhury, Bosco Hung, Simon Mylius, Erika Lee

Past MARS

MARS 3 Paper

Combining Cost-Constrained Runtime Monitors for AI Safety

Tim Hua, James Baskerville, Henri Lemoine, Mia Hopman, Aryan Bhatt, Tyler Tracy

Accepted to NeurIPS 2025

MARS 3 Paper

A transformer architecture alteration to incentivise externalised reasoning

Elizabeth Pavlova, Mariia Koroliuk, Karthik Viswanathan, Cameron Tice, Edward James Young, Puria Radmard

MARS 3 Interactive Demo

AI Has Opinions, and They’re Not the Same as Yours.

Sergei Smirnov, Jesse Gilbert

MARS 3 Paper

Depth-Wise Activation Steering for Honest Language Models

Gracjan Góral, Marysia Winkels, Steven Basart

MARS 2 Paper

Evaluating Language Model Character Traits

Francis Rhys Ward, Zejia Yang, Alex Jackson, Randy Brown, Chandler Smith, Grace Colverd, Louis Thomson, Raymond Douglas, Patrik Bartak, Andrew Rowan

MARS 1 Paper

Compact Proofs of Model Performance via Mechanistic Interpretability

Jason Gross, Rajashree Agrawal, Thomas Kwa, Euan Ong, Chun Hei Yip, Alex Gibson, Soufiane Noubir, Lawrence Chan