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MatthewK

Research Assistant @ Global Poverty Research Lab
12 karmaJoined Pursuing an undergraduate degreePursuing a graduate degree (e.g. Master's)Seeking workEvanston, IL, USA
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AI safetyAcademiaArtificial intelligenceAI alignmentAI interpretabilityGlobal health & developmentEconomicsIntervention evaluation

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Emailing matthewkhoriaty2026@u.northwestern.edu is the most reliable way to reach me. Non-urgent messages can be sent through the EA Forum.

Currently a research assistant for Northwestern's Development Economics lab: the Global Poverty Research Lab.

  • Utilized natural language processing to make a human-in-the-loop research paper finder and classifier to facilitate the process of creating quantitative meta-analyses about interventions to improve developing world economies
  • Engineered an interface with HTML, Javascript, and Flask
  • Deployed backend code to AWS Lambda to enhance scalability and efficiency

President and founder of Northwestern University AI Safety Club.

Doing ML Research with Professor Wood-Doughty

Organizer for the Effective Altruism Midwest Retreat

My "Career Stage" is both undergraduate degree and Master's degree because I'm going for both at the same time.

How others can help me

I'm looking for AI Safety research positions for summer 2025: the summer before my senior year of college. As I understand it, the way to get into AI research may start with me gaining reputation and experience in a non-AI software development role that summer.

I'm having trouble deciding between academia and industry. Guidance is valuable. 

How I can help others

If you are considering applying to Northwestern and want to hear about EA, AI Safety, computer science, or development economics here, feel free to reach out! (I could also put you in contact with my animal welfare friends)

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Effective Local Altruism
MatthewK1
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I guess I don't really understand Zvi and Nate here. Having a healthy community is important, and becoming a monk and starving yourself decreases the amount of positive impact you can have. EAs know this and consider sacrificing long-term resources for short term donations/impact a mistake.

Good point about nationalities being arbitrary and not really reciprocal.

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Effective Altruism and the Human Mind [5000 Word Summary]
MatthewK3
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I got excited by the idea of giving the book out at the EA table at my university club fair, but it looks like the options are $89 from Oxford University Press, a pdf, or an audiobook. That's not going to work. 

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