SPAR @SPARexec
We're a part-time, virtual research program that gives students and early career professionals an opportunity to work with professional AI safety researchers. sparai.org Joined March 2024-
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Kairos is an incredible team and I feel proud to play a part. If any of our roles interest you, you should apply! Happy to chat about the org as well, DMs open :)
I'm very excited to announce that Kairos just raised $50M from @coeff_giving to build talent infrastructure for AI safety. We're using it to ambitiously grow our team and portfolio of projects, and we're now hiring for 10 open roles. 🧵
Let there be more human capital! (aka let the next HF incident be evaled by more than 3 people!)
I'm very excited to announce that Kairos just raised $50M from @coeff_giving to build talent infrastructure for AI safety. We're using it to ambitiously grow our team and portfolio of projects, and we're now hiring for 10 open roles. 🧵
I wouldn't have fully pivoted into AI safety a year ago without Kairos and their amazing programs. So excited!
I'm very excited to announce that Kairos just raised $50M from @coeff_giving to build talent infrastructure for AI safety. We're using it to ambitiously grow our team and portfolio of projects, and we're now hiring for 10 open roles. 🧵
@austinc3301 @fdosmither @coeff_giving @KairosAIS Congrats!!! also, great rebranding and landing page
I'm very excited to announce that Kairos just raised $50M from @coeff_giving to build talent infrastructure for AI safety. We're using it to ambitiously grow our team and portfolio of projects, and we're now hiring for 10 open roles. 🧵
We're very excited to announce that Kairos has raised $50M from @coeff_giving for building talent infrastructure for AI safety. We're now hiring for 10 roles in our team! forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/6ucKLAbr…
Apply today!
📣Today is the last day left to apply for this round of SPAR! Apply by August 18 to join our largest round yet — 200+ projects with mentors from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, RAND, AI Security Institute, Apollo Research, SecureBio, Machine Intelligence Research Institute, and
The deadline for my SPAR stream with @GovindPimpale is tonight AOE, we’ve been brainstorming some exciting projects across AI macrostrategy and emerging tech which I’m excited to collaborate on with talented contributors!
I’m mentoring a @SPARexec stream with @GovindPimpale called “Topics in AI strategy and futurism”. Last time we mentored for SPAR we won first prize at the demo day and I have every intention of reclaiming the throne (also it’s paid) 🧵1/n
Checkout my project with @christinecorryy if you think you’re a good communicator!!
📣Today is the last day left to apply for this round of SPAR! Apply by August 18 to join our largest round yet — 200+ projects with mentors from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, RAND, AI Security Institute, Apollo Research, SecureBio, Machine Intelligence Research Institute, and
apply to Harshul's SPAR stream!!
For more details, visit: sparai.org/projects/f26/r… Apply if you're excited about AILW!
📣Today is the last day left to apply for this round of SPAR! Apply by August 18 to join our largest round yet — 200+ projects with mentors from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, RAND, AI Security Institute, Apollo Research, SecureBio, Machine Intelligence Research Institute, and more! Work on a part-time AI safety, AI policy, AI security, or biosecurity project. Open to students & professionals, prior research experience not required for all projects. 📝 Apply here: forms.sparai.org/spar/mentee-app 📷 Browse open projects: tinyurl.com/sparf26project…
You have about 24 hours left to apply to @LydNot and I’s stream on LLM Introspection! Take a look at the link below if you’re curious 👀
Yay! Come apply and do some cool work on model introspection 💭: sparai.org/projects/f26/r…
I’ll be mentoring SPAR projects on interpretability again. You’re gonna work 3 months half time in a team of like minded people and write an AI safety paper. Applications close in 24 hours! Apply here:
We're excited to announce that applications are now open for the Fall round of SPAR! 🧵 Join us for 3 months (September - December) in a remote program to work on impactful research projects with expert mentors in AI safety, AI policy, AI security, and Biosecurity.
Applications for my SPAR project are open (til next Tues). Come work with me on weird agent foundations / causality stuff for a couple months 🤖. No coding, just scribbling. sparai.org/projects/f26/r…
We're excited to announce that applications are now open for the Fall round of SPAR! 🧵 Join us for 3 months (September - December) in a remote program to work on impactful research projects with expert mentors in AI safety, AI policy, AI security, and Biosecurity.
Come work on replications of AI safety research with @zephaniahbroe and I at @SPARexec! @secondlookxlab is hosting 2-4 mentees over the Fall semester. SPAR runs Sept-Dec, part time, and our application should take <1 hour. You can expect 2+ hours of mentorship from Second Look along with external mentorship from researchers at orgs like Anthropic, X AI, Oxford, Redwood Research, and Geodesic. secondlookresearch.com
come work on AI safety meta-science for @secondlookxlab in our upcoming @SPARexec stream!! applications are due August 19th. plus our supplemental questions are fun! sparai.org/projects/f26/r…
Come work on replications of AI safety research with @zephaniahbroe and I at @SPARexec! @secondlookxlab is hosting 2-4 mentees over the Fall semester. SPAR runs Sept-Dec, part time, and our application should take <1 hour. You can expect 2+ hours of mentorship from Second Look
Announcing a research project on comparing animal and AI welfare! As a @nonhumanminds-@RethinkPriors collaboration within the Moral Weight Project 2.0, it will assess welfare intensity across species and substrates. Feel free to apply via @SPARexec! sparai.org/projects/f26/
Apply by Aug 18 to my SPAR project on unverbalized eval awareness!! 🎆 🧵
WAISI members and alumni are conducting research at organizations including the University of Chicago Existential Risk Lab, the Cooperative AI Foundation, and MATS Research. This fall, three of them are mentoring projects in @SPARexec's Fall 2026 cohort, the program that connects new AI safety researchers with experienced mentors. 1/n
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Saloni Agarwal @saloni_agrl
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Ravi M @Ravi__Mahajan
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Luis Enrique @ensufuero
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Eyas Ayesh @EyasAyesh
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Shlok @shlok_ch
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Ishmit Singhania @IshmitSinghania
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Praful🔮 @PrafulMohanan
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Ivan Rajačić @ivanRajacic1
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Ka Weng @ka_weng_
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Saumya Sharma @Saumya_810
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Krishna Kaasyap @krishnakaasyap
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Vishnu Nair @visceralnair
89 Followers 1K Following self aware cog; previously @Meta, @Cisco @ThousandEyes, VC; s/w eng, data science and cybersecurity; @johnshopkins
tonchi matta @tonchimatta
589 Followers 231 Following ⏸️ Law student. @ UC Chile Sci-comm meets worrying about AI. 📍Santiago, CL (but also everywhere all at once)
Georg Lange @_georg_lange
243 Followers 306 Following Interested in artificial and biological intelligence.
Mario Giulianelli @glnmario
2K Followers 1K Following Associate Prof @ucl, Co-founder @parallx_ai | Member of @ELLISforEurope | | Prev. senior research scientist @AISafetyInst, postdoc @ETH_en, PhD @illc_amsterdam
Gabriele Sarti @gsarti_
3K Followers 2K Following Co-founder @parallx_ai & postdoc w/ @davidbau @ndif_team @Northeastern. Prev: PhD @GroNLP, @amazonscience
METR @METR_Evals
55K Followers 40 Following We work to scientifically measure whether and when AI systems might threaten catastrophic harm to society. Nonprofit.
Forecasting Research ... @Research_FRI
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom
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Neel Somani @neelsomani
38K Followers 288 Following ML research & energy markets. Prev: Founder of Eclipse, QR at Citadel. Proud Cal Bear. Read my primer: https://t.co/2yI5SBMyof
Dylan HadfieldMenell @dhadfieldmenell
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Séb Krier @sebkrier
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Matt 🔸 @SpacedOutMatt
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Agus 🔸 @austinc3301
7K Followers 7K Following Trying to make AI go well for everyone. Enjoyer of good faith discussions. Running @KairosAIS.
Omar Nusrat @OmarNusrat
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Seth Donoughe @seth_donoughe
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Luca Righetti @lucafrighetti
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Andrea Miotti @andreamiotti
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sarah @littIeramblings
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Thomas Woodside @Thomas_Woodside
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Charbel-Raphael @CRSegerie
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Rob Bensinger ⏹️ @robbensinger
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Andrew Critch (🤖�... @AndrewCritchPhD
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Alex Turner @Turn_Trout
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