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PhD Studentship in Monitoring and Increasing LLM Safety
. University of Cambridge • Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Salary
£48k – £48k
Posted
30 May 2026
Sponsor match
high
Skilled WorkerWorker (A rating)
LLMs are becoming more capable and society increasingly relies on them. This makes it important to ensure LLMs are safe. In this PhD you can use a variety of approaches, such as white-box mechanistic interpretability and black-box behavioural research to evaluate the safety of LLMs, monitor their behaviour at inference time, as well as devise strategies for reducing risk from LLMs. Initially, this
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