Claire Short
Bio
Claire Short is a researcher and field-builder working at the intersection of AI safety and diversity in research. She is the founder of Athena, a mentorship program for women and gender-minority researchers in technical AI alignment, which provides a hybrid retreat-and-mentorship experience to help underrepresented researchers build skills and networks in the field. She currently serves as Research Manager at MATS (ML Alignment & Theory Scholars) in Berkeley, CA. Claire holds a Master's degree in Cognitive Science from Columbia University and has a background in neuroscience, including behavioral studies of impulsive decision-making in animal models and EEG research on meditation states. Her previous affiliations include AI Safety Camp (as a research lead), MATS fellowship (as a scholar in cohorts 3.0 and 7.0), Foresight Institute (as a Neurotech Fellow), the Atlas Fellowship, Epistea, and the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative. She has received funding from the Long-Term Future Fund to run the Athena program.
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- Personal Website
- https://researchathena.org/
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- LessWrong
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Grants
from Long-Term Future Fund
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- Last Updated
- Mar 22, 2026, 3:00 PM UTC
- Created
- Mar 20, 2026, 2:49 AM UTC