Researcher Access Program Application

We are interested in supporting researchers using our products to study key areas related to the responsible deployment of AI and mitigating risks associated with such systems. If you are interested in an opportunity for subsidized access, please provide us with details about your research use case. We are currently prioritizing research in the areas listed below, but are excited to hear more about other research questions.

We encourage applications from early-stage researchers in all countries that are supported by our API, and we are especially interested in subsidizing work from researchers with limited financial and institutional resources.

Please take a moment to review our Research Policy.

Please note that due to a high volume of requests, it takes time for us to review these applications and not all research will be prioritized for subsidy. We will only be in touch if your application is selected for subsidy.

Email*

First name*

Last name*

Institution or Organization*

Which models available for researchers, if any, are you applying for access to?

GPT-4 Base Model Access

Codex Access

Research Area*

We’re initially scoping our research collaborations to the following general areas, though we welcome suggestions for areas of focus in the future. The specific questions for each area are illustrative - we’d be delighted to receive research proposals that address different questions.

Alignment: How can we understand what objective, if any, a model is best understood as pursuing? How do we increase the extent to which that objective is aligned with human preferences, such as via prompt design or fine-tuning?

Fairness and Representation: How should performance criteria be established for fairness and representation in language models? How can language models be improved in order to effectively support the goals of fairness and representation in specific, deployed contexts?

Interdisciplinary Research: How can AI development draw on insights from other disciplines such as philosophy, cognitive science, and sociolinguistics?

Interpretability / Transparency: How do these models work, mechanistically? Can we identify what concepts they’re using, or extract latent knowledge from the model, make inferences about the training procedure, or predict surprising future behavior?

Misuse Potential: How can systems like the API be misused? What sorts of ‘red teaming’ approaches can we develop to help us and other AI developers think about responsibly deploying technologies like this?

Model Exploration: Models like those served by the API have a variety of capabilities which we have yet to explore. We’re excited by investigations in many areas including model limitations, linguistic properties, commonsense reasoning, and potential uses for many other problems.

Robustness: Generative models have uneven capability surfaces, with the potential for surprisingly strong and surprisingly weak areas of capability. How robust are large generative models to “natural” perturbations in the prompt, such as phrasing the same idea in different ways or with/without typos? Can we predict the kinds of domains and tasks for which large generative models are more likely to be robust (or not robust), and how does this relate to the training data? Are there techniques we can use to predict and mitigate worst-case behavior? How can robustness be measured in the context of few-shot learning (e.g. across variations in prompts)? Can we train models so that they satisfy safety properties with a very high level of reliability, even under adversarial inputs?

Other

Project Description*

Within the research area selected above, please describe the type of work you plan on doing with the API and your approach. Include your proposed research question(s), hypotheses if applicable, brief research design, and how the API will support your work.

Type of model(s) to be used for the project (select either / both)*

Natural language generation

Code generation

Image generation

Timeline*

What is the anticipated timeline for completing this research (i.e. 3 months, 6 months)?

Research Budget*

What is the budget you anticipate needing for this research?

Number of investigators*

Would you be the sole investigator on this project, or would you require technical access for multiple individuals? If so, please specify how many.

Past research

What past research by you would you like us to read as we consider your submission (if applicable)?

Any other comments?

Country or region*