Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU Jena) is one of Germany's oldest public research universities, founded in 1558 and located in Jena, Thuringia. The university's AI safety-relevant work centers on the LAMALab, an independent research group led by Dr. Kevin Jablonka at the Helmholtz Institute for Polymers in Energy Applications (HIPOLE). The group applies large language models and machine learning to chemistry and materials science, developing rigorous benchmarks—including ChemBench and MaCBench—to evaluate LLM capabilities in high-stakes scientific domains. This work received an Open Philanthropy grant in December 2024 to build an analytical chemistry benchmark for LLM agents.
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By developing rigorous, expert-level benchmarks for LLM capabilities in high-stakes scientific domains (chemistry), the LAMALab produces tools that allow the AI safety and research community to accurately assess where LLMs are capable versus overconfident, and to track capability thresholds over time. Reliable benchmarks in consequential domains help identify when AI systems may be deployed prematurely or dangerously, and support informed governance and safety decisions. Dr. Jablonka's red-teaming work at OpenAI extends this capacity-assessment approach directly into frontier model development.
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