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Summary

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

Source high-quality participants
Upskill these talented participants in ML skills for AI safety work
Integrate participants with the existing AI safety community and legitimise AI safety as a compelling field to work in
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.

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 [...]