AI Safety Events and Training: 2024 Week 16 update

This weekly newsletter lists newly announced AI safety events, opportunities, and training programs. Visit aisafety.events for a full list of upcoming events, or aisafety.training for upcoming training programs.

New events

• AI Safety Camp final presentations. April 27-28, online.
  ~30 projects presenting their work done over the past 3 months.

• AI and Democracy Hackathon: Demonstrating the Risks. May 3-6, hybrid.
  Explore the challenges AI poses to democratic systems.

• Provable AI Safety, Steve Omohundro seminar. May 9, online.
  Approach to AI safety based on laws of physics and math. proof, as the only two guaranteed principles for constraining powerful AGI systems

• AGI: Cryptography, Security & Multipolar Scenarios Workshop. May 14-15, SF.
  Gather to explore critical challenges in AI alignment, security, and coordination, and to foster collaboration on innovative tools and strategies for safe AI development.

• Virtual AI Safety Unconference 2024. May 23-26, online.
  Collaborative event with talks, activities, and discussion for AI safety researchers globally.

New training opportunities

• The 2024 Pivotal Research Fellowship. July 1 – August 30, London.
  9-week fellowship focusing on technical AI safety, AI governance, and biosecurity research. Deadline: April 21.

• EU Tech Policy Fellowship – Summer 2024.
  Fostering the next generation of EU policymakers with emerging technology expertise. Deadline: April 21.

• London AI Safety Research (LASR) Labs. July 1 – September 20, London
  Summer research programme in technical AI safety. Deadline: April 24.

• The Cooperative AI Summer School. June 19-23, Santa Cruz, California.
  Aimed at students and early-career professionals in AI and related fields, this program offers participants grounding in the emerging field of cooperative AI. Deadline: April 26.

• Non-Trivial Fellowship 2024. 8 weeks, online.
  Fellowship for young people to start an impactful research, policy, or entrepreneurial project. Deadline: April 28.

• Supervised Program for Alignment Research (SPAR) Summer 2024.
  A volunteer research program designed to give students and professionals an opportunity to work with mentors and develop valuable experience in AI safety. Deadline: May 14.

• AI Safety Collab announced the Alignment Mapping Program, an 8-week journey for individuals with a background in AI safety fundamentals or relevant experience in the field to explore the complexities of alignment, develop strategies for tackling fuzzy problems, and map out potential pathways in AI alignment research.

New open calls

• Give a talk or participate to the Virtual AI Safety Unconference 2024.

• Safeguarded AI, call for proposals TA1.1. Deadline: May 28.

• AAAI Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society’s Call for papers. Deadline: May 14.

Notes

• The Technical AI Safety Conference 2024 happened recently and published its recordings.