Jonathan Bostock

Substack · LessWrong · GitHub · Google Scholar · Admonymous

I'm an researcher with a background in chemistry and nanotech, working on the Alignment Team at Arcadia Impact, alongside members of the UK's AISI. At the moment, I'm studying how the motivations and behaviours of modern LLMs change when they're trained to exhibit specific behaviours. In the past, I've done research into , and outside of AI I've done experimental (wet lab) work in several areas of .

Jonathan by San Francisco Bay

Research

Papers and Preprints

When Can We Trust Untrusted Monitoring? An investigation into AI Control.

Other

PhD in nanotech from Imperial College London.

MSci in artificial metalloenzymes from University of Cambridge, carried out with the Barker Group.

PauseAI

Public Talks

Report from the Jungles of Untrusted Monitoring A talk given at ControlConf 2026, the AI control conference in Berkeley, CA.

I have been a regular volunteer at PauseAI UK since 2023, and have advocated publicly and directly to MPs for an international treaty to halt the development of the most advanced AI systems.

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Miscelleneous

I play the piano and sing. You can even listen to some of my Music.

I'm an avid birder, and have experience in .

I represented the United Kingdom in the 2018 IChO coming 14th in the world.