Matt Pagett
Welcome to my personal website.
Research interests
- AI and robotics explainability, trustworthiness, and accountability
- Digital humanities
- World models
Select projects
Research projects
EMPO - Empowerment-based AI agents (led by Jobst Heitzig; I am contributing in connection with AI Safety Initiative Groningen)
Hackathons
Cross-Border Agentic AI Compliance (CBAAC): Embedding Regulatory and Cultural Risk Compliance into Agentic Communication (with Tomoko Mitsuoka, submitted to Apart Research Technical Governance Hackathon - February 2026)
Adversarial LLM span detection for social sycophancy observation (with Pranati Modumudi, submitted to Apart Research AI Manipulation Hackathon - Jan 2026)
Comparative LLM methods for social media bot detection (With Andreas Raaskov. 2nd place winner, November 2025 Apart Defensive Acceleration Hackathon)
Protocop - social media moderation toolkit using MCP (Entered into MCP 1st Anniversary Hackathon, November 2025)
Digital humanities
Cervantes Reader (v1) - AI-powered narration/analysis for early modern literature
Artificial Quartet. An early attempt to use generative AI to write a play. Submitted as an entry to the Financial Times 2020 Weekend Festival theater contest.
Resources
AI Safety
ENAIS - The European Network for AI Safety offers worldwide AI safety education. I’m a faciliator for the Winter 2026 AI Safety Collab.
BlueDot provides education about AI safety and governance. I completed the AGI Strategy and Technical AI Safety courses in 2025 and recommend them to anyone interested in AI risk.
ARENA - detailed technical AI safety course. I’ve formed a self-study group on the ARENA Slack channel.
Software Development
SolveIt is a course, a method, and a platform to use LLMs thoughtfully in software development (and other areas, like writing). (This is an affiliate link - I’ll earn a commission and you’ll get a discount if you sign up using this link). It is led by Jeremy Howard whose Fast.AI course on Deep Learning remains as relevant and useful as when I first took it in 2019.