I think Tübingen has become one of the best places in the world for academic AI safety research.
Multiple groups across the university, MPI-IS, ELLIS Institute, and AI Center now work on AI safety & security.
Having done the ML Master’s there, I can also strongly recommend it.
We can finally talk about it:
We found a way to extract hidden reasoning of frontier models using a vulnerability in the APIs of every frontier AI company.
We verified that our reasoning token count matches billed API thinking tokens 1:1 for most of the prompts we queried.