Max Lamparth

Max is a returning postdoctoral fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, the Stanford Center for AI Safety, and the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative. With his technical research, Max wants to make AI systems more secure and safe to use. Specifically, he his focussing on how to improve the ethical behavior of language models, how to make their inner workings more interpretable, and how to increase their robustness against misuses. 

Max also created and teaches a new course at Stanford: “CS120: Introduction to AI Safety”. His research and teaching is advised by Prof. Clark Barrett, Prof. Steve Luby, and Prof. Paul Edwards. Previously, Max received his Ph.D. in August 2023 from the Technical University of Munich and previously a B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg.