Lennart Finke

About
Lennart Finke

Hi! I work on AI safety as an incoming PhD student at ETH Zurich and as a scholar at MATS mentored by the one and only Mary Phuong.

Before that, I was on exchange at Harvard, and before that, a summer fellow at Pivotal Research, examining language model societal impacts with the UK AI Security Institute and the OpenAI Preparedness Team. I've also contributed to METR's evaluations suite. Previously, I did a degree in math at the University of Göttingen.

News
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🗞️ Two paper releases in two days: One on AI being partial to the company that created it and one on treaty design for international agreements to pace AI development. Happy to see mentions by giants like Daniel Kokotajlo and Geoffrey Irving!

📚 Our dataset SimpleStories makes its way into Goodfire's Research Blog and Anthropic's Alignment Science Blog! Especially the latter one, on gradient routing, is a recommended read; it's mentioned in an open letter by Dario Amodei.

🇸🇬🇺🇸 Presented SimpleStories at the ICLR SynthData Workshop and NeurIPS 2025.

📬 Anthropic Cofounder Jack Clark reports on our LLM persuasion paper.

Contact
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Blog: fi-le.net
Email: firstname@finke.dev
Github: @lennart-finke
Twitter: @lennartfinke
HF: @lennart-finke
Papers: Scholar Page

Trivia
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The pixel art on the left is hand-drawn by me.

I really enjoy the Japanese language, holding JLPT N1 and 漢検2級.