AI Safety Events and Training

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AI Safety Events & Training: 2025 week 2 update aisafetyeventsandtraining.substack.com/p/ai-safety-ev… New events - Developing AI Evaluation Standards: January 15 (online). - AI Safety Outreach Seminar & Social: January 25 (online). - AI Alignment Evals Hackathon: January 25 – February 2 (online). New training programs - Global Challenges Project – March Workshop, Oxford: March 28–31 (Oxford, UK). - Global Challenges Project – July Workshop, Oxford: July 11–14 (Oxford, UK). - Cooperative AI Summer School 2025: July 9–13 (Marlow, UK).

AI Safety Events & Training: 2025 week 1 update aisafetyeventsandtraining.substack.com/p/ai-safety-ev… New events - AI Safety & Assurance Startup Hackathon: January 17–20 (online & locations worldwide). - Hardware Challenge – Detect Stealth AI Training Runs: March 7–10 (online & locations worldwide). - EAGxCDMX: March 14–16 (Mexico City, Mexico). New training programs - AI Safety Fundamentals – AI Governance Fast-Track: January 13–17 (online). - AI Safety – From Reinforcement Learning to Foundation Models: February 25 or 26 (Philadelphia, USA). - Social Choice for AI Ethics and Safety 2025 (SC4AI’25): May 19–20 (Detroit, USA). - GovAI Summer Fellowship 2025: June 9 – August 31 (London, UK). - PIBBSS Summer Research Fellowship 2025: early June – early September (USA or UK).

AI Safety Events & Training: 2024 week 51 update aisafetyeventsandtraining.substack.com/p/ai-safety-ev… New events and training programs - Reprendre le Contrôle: February 8 (Paris, France). - Technical Alignment Research Accelerator (TARA): March 1 – May 31 (Australia & New Zealand). - International Conference on Large-Scale AI Risks: May 26–28 (Leuven, Belgium).

AI Safety Events and Training: 2024 Week 50 update aisafetyeventsandtraining.substack.com/p/ai-safety-ev… New events and training programs - AI Safety Fundamentals – AI Alignment Fast-Track: December 23–27 (online). - AI Safety Fundamentals – Writing Intensive: December 23–27 (online). - GCP January Workshop – Boston: January 17–20 (Boston, USA).

AI Safety Events and Training: 2024 Week 49 update open.substack.com/pub/aisafetyev… New events and training programs - AI Safety Fundamentals – Intro to Transformative AI: weekly, December – January (online). - Anthropic Fellows Program for AI Safety Research: March – September, 2025 (Berkeley, USA or London, UK). - Tokyo AI Safety Conference 2025: April 12 (Tokyo, Japan). Notes - Applications are now open for EA Global: Bay Area (deadline February 3) and EA Global: London (deadline May 18). - The Center on Long-Term Risk is seeking input and interest from the community on its planned S-Risk Seminars. Seminar content will be based on participant availability, background, and interest.

AI Safety Events and Training: 2024 Week 48 update aisafetyeventsandtraining.substack.com/p/ai-safety-ev… Events - AI Safety Founders Meetup: Dec 6 (online) - Dutch AI Safety Retreat (DAISR) 2024: Dec 13–15 (Europe) Training opportunities - AI Safety Fundamentals: Intro to TAI: Dec 2–6 (online) - Alignment Research Bootcamp Oxford: Jan 6–17, 2025 (UK) - WhiteBox AI Interpretability Fellowship: Jan 22 – May 18, 2025 (Asia, online) - HIP Impact Accelerator Program: Feb 10 – Mar 28, 2025 (online)

AI Safety Events and Training: 2024 Week 47 update aisafetyeventsandtraining.substack.com/p/ai-safety-ev… Events - AI Safety: X Risks or Spectrum of Risks? Singapore Roundtable: Nov 29 (online) - AI Evaluations - Research Sprint: Nov 30 (UK) - Recurse Center's AI Safety Workshop: Dec 7 (USA) Training opportunities - CLR S-Risk Foundations Course Winter 2024: Dec 9 – Jan 18, 2025 (online) - AISI - Residency on Autonomous Systems Team: 2025 (UK) Notes - CLR S-Risk Foundations Course applications close Nov 27

AI Safety Events and Training: 2024 Week 46 update aisafetyeventsandtraining.substack.com/p/ai-safety-ev… Events - Princeton AI Alignment and Safety Seminar: Nov 19, 2024 (online) - AI Safety Workshop Day 2024: Nov 20, 2024 (online) - Women in AI Safety: Second event: Nov 21, 2024 (UK) - AI Safety Meet-Up Boston: Nov 22, 2024 (USA) - Harms and Risks of AI in the Military: Dec 2-3, 2024 (online & Canada) - AI & Liability Ideathon: Dec 7, 2024 (online) - LLMs & Public Discourse Convening: Feb 27-28, 2025 (USA) Training opportunities - Mentorship for Alignment Research Students (MARS): Jan 13 - Apr 15, 2025 (UK) - Paragon Policy Fellowship: Spring 2025: Feb 15 - Jun 1, 2025 (USA) - Global AI Safety Fellowship: Mar 1 - Aug 31, 2025 (USA, Asia) - AI Governance Fast Track: AI Policy Accelerator: Apr 7-25, 2025 (UK) - AI Governance Fast Track: Mentorship Programme: Feb 1 - Sep 1, 2025 (UK)

AI Safety Events and Training: 2024 Week 44 update aisafetyeventsandtraining.substack.com/p/ai-safety-ev… New events and training programs - Alignment Plan Reading Group: daily starting November 5 (online). - AI-Plans Ideathon – Allocating Liability: December 7–21 (online). - The Athens Roundtable – Sixth Edition: December 9 (online & Paris, France). - AI Safety Fundamentals – Governance Course (early 2025): January 15 – May 7, 2025 (online). - Evaluation of Multi-Modal Generation workshop: January 20, 2025 (Abu Dhabi, UAE). - Workshop on Datasets and Evaluators of AI Safety: 1 day between February 25 and March 4, 2025 (Philadelphia, USA). Notes - LASR Labs: Spring programme (a full-time paid research program in London) has extended their deadline for applications to November 1st. - 10th AI Safety Camp (an online part-time research program) is now accepting applications to join any of their 32 projects, covering a range of topics reflecting various perspectives on what is good AI safety research. Applications close November 17.

AI Safety Events and Training: 2024 Week 43 update aisafetyeventsandtraining.substack.com/p/ai-safety-ev… New events and training programs - d/acc: AI Security Salon: November 6 (San Francisco, USA). - Reprogramming AI Models Hackathon: November 22–25 (online). - Fieldbuilder Support Program: December 9, 2024 – May 15, 2025 (online). Notes - ML4Good Europe March 2025 now have confirmed dates (March 7–17) and have opened a second round of applications closing October 31.

AI Safety Events and Training: 2024 Week 42 update aisafetyeventsandtraining.substack.com/p/ai-safety-ev… New events and training programs - Reflections on AI safety and governance research: October 23 (online & Manila, Philippines) - AISafety.com Reading Group – Session 304: October 24 (online) - AISF Community Debate Night: October 26 (online) - AI Policy Hackathon at Johns Hopkins University: October 26–28 (online & Washington D.C., USA) - Bayesian oracles and safety bounds – Yoshua Bengio: November 14 (online) - The Curve: November 22–24 (Berkeley, USA) - Global Challenges Project December Workshop – Oxford: December 6–9 (Oxford, UK) - Thinking Competition: December 2024 – May 2025 (India) - AI Institute Fellowship Program: 2025 (New York, USA) - The Future of Third-Party AI Evaluation: October 28 (online) Featured resource AISafety.com/Donation-Guide – advice on how to donate most effectively to the AI safety field given the time and funding you have.

AI Safety Events and Training: 2024 Week 41 update aisafetyeventsandtraining.substack.com/p/ai-safety-ev… New events and training programs - Autostructures: October 11–13 (Bangalore, India) - AI Safety: X Risks or Spectrum of Risks?: October 25 (online) - Frontier AI Safety & Policy Panel: October 30 (online & Boston, USA) - LASR Labs: February 10 – May 9, 2025 (London, UK) Featured resource AISafety.com/funders – an extensive database of sources of financial support for AI Safety projects.

AI Safety Events and Training: 2024 Week 40 update aisafetyeventsandtraining.substack.com/p/ai-safety-ev… New events and training programs - AISafety.com-Reading Group – Session 303: October 10 (online) - Vision Weekend USA 2024: December 6–8 (Bay Area, USA) Featured resource AISafety.com/Projects – a database of AI Safety field-building initiatives seeking volunteers.

AI Safety Events and Training: 2024 Week 39 update aisafetyeventsandtraining.substack.com/p/ai-safety-ev… New events and training programs - Concordia Contest, September 15 to October 31 (Canada, Online) - Protecting Fundamental Rights in the Era of AI, October 2 (Online) - AI Ethics and Governance Symposium by Johns Hopkins, October 7 (USA) - Frontier AI: Challenges & Opportunities, October 10 (UK) - Cooperative AI PhD Fellowship 2024, Deadline on October 14 (Online) - AI Policy Summit 2024, November 1 (ETH Zurich & online) - AAAI Fall Symposia – AI Trustworthiness and Risk Assessment for Challenging Contexts, November 7-9 (Virginia, USA)

AI Safety Events and Training: 2024 Week 38 update aisafetyeventsandtraining.substack.com/p/ai-safety-ev… New events and training programs - Future Impact Group Fellowship, 12-week starting late October (Online). Application deadline: September 28. - CHAI Internship 2025, 12-16 weeks starting May 2025 (Berkeley, Online). Application deadline: October 5. - Taming Silicon Valley: Peter Norvig in Conversation with Gary Marcus, September 24 (Stanford, Online) Notes - International Dialogues on AI Safety of September 5-8 in Venice concluded. Signatories emphasized the growing risks of advanced AI surpassing human intelligence and the need for global governance to ensure AI safety. The resulting statement proposes establishing emergency preparedness institutions, a safety assurance framework, and independent global research to address AI-related catastrophic risks. It urges collaboration on safety measures, including rigorous testing, independent audits, and developing verification techniques to safeguard the responsible deployment of AI technologies worldwide. - The Convening of International Network of AI Safety Institutes will happen on November 20-21, 2024, in San Francisco, California. The event will bring together technical experts on artificial intelligence from each member’s AI safety institute, or equivalent government-backed scientific office, in order to align on priority work areas for the Network and begin advancing global collaboration and knowledge sharing on AI safety. The U.S. Commerce Department and U.S. State Department will co-host it. - UK’s AISI and the Centre for the Governance of AI are bringing together AI companies and researchers for an invite-only conference to accelerate the design and implementation of frontier AI safety frameworks. This post shares the call for submissions that we sent to conference attendees. It will happen on the 21-22 November in the Bay Area.

AI Safety Events and Training: 2024 Week 37 update aisafetyeventsandtraining.substack.com/p/ai-safety-ev… New events and training programs - ARENA 4.0 Interpretability Hackathon September 15 (Online) - Agent Security Hackathon: Expanding our Knowledge Oct 4 - 7 (Online) Notes - Invitation to lead a project at AI Safety Camp 2025, deadline on September 22. - Recap and videos from the Vienna Alignment Workshop 2024 now available. - Applications for ML Alignment & Theory Scholars (MATS) Winter 2024-25 close October 6.

AI Safety Events and Training: 2024 Week 36 update aisafetyeventsandtraining.substack.com/p/ai-safety-ev… New events and training programs - Ultimate Jailbreaking Arena September 7 (online) - PIBBSS Summer Symposium 2024 September 10-13 (online, London) - Asia’s Perspective on AI Safety: Jakarta Roundtable September 11 (online) - Safe Generative AI Workshop @ NeurIPS December 14 or 15 (Canada) - Cosmos Fellowship Apply by December 1st (UK) Notes - Catalyze AI Safety Incubation Program extended its deadline to September 8. - SFF-2024 Mechanisms for Flexible Hardware-Enabled Guarantees (Grant Round) Apply by September 15 - Cosmos Ventures (Grant Program) Apply by November 1st

AI Safety Events and Training: 2024 Week 35 update aisafetyeventsandtraining.substack.com/p/ai-safety-ev… New events and training programs - The Concordia Challenge: September 7–9 (online) - Dangers of AI: France in denial?: September 10 (Paris, France) - AI Safety Camp – Virtual 2025: January 11 – April 27, 2025 (online) - Talos Fellowship – Spring 2025: January 29 – March 28, 2025 (online & Brussels, Belgium) Featured resource AISafety.com/Courses – a database of curricula and reading lists for self-led learning at all levels.