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Our Funding Ends June 2025

Apart Research is at a pivotal moment. In the past 2.5 years, we've built a global pipeline for AI safety research and talent that has produced 22 peer-reviewed papers, engaged 3,500+ participants in 42 research sprints across 50+ global locations, and helped launch top talent into AI safety careers at leading institutions like METR, Oxford, FAR.AI and the UK AI Security Institute. Without immediate funding, this momentum will stop in June 2025.

We need your support now to continue this high-impact work.

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Why Apart Makes a Difference

Unique Talent Pipeline: Our Sprint → Studio → Fellowship model has engaged 3,500+ participants, developed 450+ pilot experiments, and supported 100+ research fellows from diverse backgrounds who might otherwise never enter AI safety

Research Excellence: Our pipeline has produced 22 peer-reviewed publications at top conferences like NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, ACL (incl. two oral spotlights at ICLR 2025), has been cited by top labs, and has received significant media attention

Policy Engagement: Beyond producing research, we actively engage in AI policy and governance. This includes presenting key findings at prominent forums like IASEAI, sharing our research in major media, serving as expert consultants for the EU AI Act Code of Practice, and participating as panelists in EU AI Office workshops

Global Impact: With 50+ event locations and participants from 26+ countries, we're building AI safety expertise across the globe

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Spotlight Achievements

Our "DarkBench" research, the first comprehensive benchmark for dark design patterns in large language models, received an Oral Spotlight at ICLR 2025 (top 1.8% of accepted papers), was presented at the IASEAI (International Association for Safe and Ethical AI) conference, and has been featured in major tech publications. 

One of the participants in our hackathon with METR, a physics graduate and computational neuroscience expert with experience in ML and data science, joined METR as a full-time member of technical staff as a direct result of participating in our March 2024 event. Within months, he was contributing to groundbreaking work that he eventually presented at ICLR 2025, —demonstrating our unique ability to identify cross-disciplinary talent and rapidly transition them into impactful AI safety research.

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Without funding, Apart will need to severely scale back the global research pipeline we've spent 2.5 years building, a system that has successfully identified exceptional talent from across 26+ countries and transformed promising ideas into published research. Your support today preserves this proven talent discovery engine and ensures groundbreaking safety research continues to shape both technical advances and governance frameworks at this critical inflection point for AI. By supporting Apart, you're enabling top tech talent worldwide to become immediate, high-impact contributors to AI safety.

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Collaborating with Apart for the Code Red Hackathon has been useful to METR’s work on developing a set of evaluation tasks.

While our main priority was to receive high-quality task implementations, the hackathon was also a great chance to engage with the research community, improve our documentation, and spread awareness about our ongoing task bounty.

We (the Cooperative AI Foundation) partnered with Apart Research to run a hackathon on multi-agent safety, to feed into an important report. We needed to work to tight deadlines […] and there were many more participants than I was expecting. Of those I spoke to afterwards, everyone remarked on how much they enjoyed taking part.

The Hackathon was a clear success for us at the Cooperative AI Foundation. We saw participants from all over the world bring fresh perspectives, which helped us create an inclusive and intellectually diverse environment. The event gave us a chance to road-test our setup ahead of NeurIPS, and the feedback we gathered directly shaped several improvements.


The hackathon showcased remarkable applications of Goodfire's tools - from detecting adversarial attacks to teaching AI systems to 'unlearn' harmful capabilities while preserving beneficial ones. Teams leveraged Goodfire's Ember API to peek inside AI models and manipulate their behavior in controlled, interpretable ways.

We're really excited to keep hosting hackathons with the interpretability community! These events have proven to be incredibly valuable - they're great for meeting and working with peers, getting interpretability newcomers involved in research, and sparking fresh ideas.

Richard Ngo

Independent AI safety researcher

Building a culture of hands-on experimentation is probably the best way to do AI safety outreach, and Apart seems to have executed on it really well.


Zainab Majid

Co-Founder at Stealth

Apart's fellowship gave me deep technical experience and connected me to an amazing network.

Apart profoundly impacted my career trajectory, and supported me throughout, I am extremely grateful for the opportunity, experience and the team.

All of my work in AI security traces back to my involvement with Apart.

Tyler Tracy

Al Safety Researcher at Redwood Research

Apart threw a hackathon for us and handled all of the logistics, they made the process low effort on my end. They generated interest in the rather new field of AI control that I'm still reaping the benefit of.
I've spent a lot of time trying to hire mentees recently, and so many of them say, "I did the apart hackathon on control and learned so much, here is my project," and that is a great signal for me that they will be a good person to bring on. 

Philip Quirke

AI Safety Research Lead at Martian

Apart Research transformed my career and life trajectory in ways I never imagined possible. In less than two years, they helped me transition from an IT professional with zero AI experience to a Research Lead at an AI safety company, with published papers at top-tier conferences. Apart didn't just provide opportunities—they provided the mentorship, connections, and belief in my potential that made an otherwise impossible career pivot successful.

Ziyue Wang

Research Engineer at Google DeepMind working on AGI Safety

I participated in an Evals hackathon for over a weekend and I loved it. I made a great friend and we published a paper together. That experience helped me build my portfolio and develop relevant LLM skills. Apart gave many people who want to work on AI safety a chance to enter it. They welcome everyone using a fun and engaging way. Thank you Apart for building such a great platform!

Alex Foote

Data Scientist at Ripjar

I participated in Apart’s first hackathon and they supported me in the following months as I developed the project much further, ultimately publishing a paper on a new interpretability method called Neuron2Graph, which was accepted at a workshop at ICLR. It has since been cited by teams at Meta and Microsoft, and most significantly was used by OpenAI in their landmark interpretability paper “Scaling and Evaluating Sparse Autoencoders”.

After working with Apart I worked independently to develop another novel interpretability technique, which I presented as a poster at the Mechanistic Interpretability workshop at ICML. The experience with Apart was directly responsible for me even thinking about trying to turn an off-hand idea into a paper, and then successfully doing so. This paper enabled me to attend the conference, where I met a bunch of people in the interpretability community for the first time. It’s fair to say that all of my interpretability research and network can be directly traced back to Apart’s support.

Cameron Tice

AI Safety Technical Governance Research Lead at ERA Cambridge

My life changed when I decided to apply for a deception detection hackathon run by Apart Research.

I am genuinely grateful for the work Apart has done, and have donated a portion of my own salary to Apart so that more researchers like me can be supported and embolden to make the leap to working on humanity's greatest problems.

Narmeen Oozeer

AI Researcher (Interpretability) - Martian

I first joined Apart through a hackathon, and from there, I met a lot of my collaborators and a community of talented and ambitious researchers. Apart helped me build foundational research skills, gain confidence, and engage deeply with the broader AI safety community. I regularly send work to Apart-affiliated researchers for feedback, and those interactions have significantly improved the quality and clarity of my ideas.

Eitan Sprejer

Founding Director BAISH

Participating in Apart's hackathon was a pivotal first step toward my career in AI Safety research. Through the support and environment provided by Apart Studio, I was able to publish my first research blog post. This publication significantly strengthened my portfolio, directly helping me secure interviews for research internships in AI Safety.

Brian Tan

Co-Founder and Operations Director of WhiteBox Research

I've been impressed with Apart Research for a while now.
Their Apart Sprints are a great global on-ramp for many people into AI safety research, and some of our fellows at WhiteBox Research have participated in them. I also got to listen to both of their ICLR orals in-person, which were insightful.

Benjamin Sturgeon

Founder of AI Safety Cape Town

I'm sure that being able to produce work like we did due to Apart had a significant impact in demonstrating competence to the mentors [at MATS 8.0].

I believe their contributions in producing tangible results in the field of AI safety are likely significantly underrated.

Jim Chapman

Chief Operating Officer - Cadenza Labs

I think Apart Research's hackathons are a great place for community and skill building. I want your work to continue.

Cristian Curaba

Università degli Studi di Udine

Apart’s guidelines and structure helped me achieve a publishable result, which is something I couldn’t have done on my own, even with a university supervisor.

Attending NeurIPS to share our results was an eye-opening experience, particularly valuable in my early stage as a researcher, that would have been impossible for me without Apart’s support.

Kunvar Thaman

Mech.Interp. Engineer - Standard Intelligence

Apart Research genuinely made a real difference at two points in my career. When I first left my job to pursue independent research, Apart’s Alignment Jams connected me with a passionate community working on mechanistic interpretability. That made a big difference in helping me find my footing.
The Apart server led directly to my first-ever published paper, accepted at ICML and ACL workshops. Attending those conferences opened doors to collaborations and shaped the trajectory of my research career in significant ways. The Apart community is diverse, welcoming, and always adds something positive to my work and life.

Trung Dung Hoang

Student - AI researcher

As a second-year undergraduate, I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to be fast-tracked and work on a paper to submit to a conference like that without Apart. I initially joined the hackathons just for fun, with no expectations - but I ended up learning a lot, picking up valuable skills (especially working with LaTeX), and understanding what makes a good graph or figure. Those skills have helped me immensely at university.

Jeremias Ferrao

Student - Independent AIS researcher

Apart has been instrumental in my early career as an AI researcher. Its hackathons and Lab program significantly boosted my research skills and confidence, culminating in my first publication at a workshop of a top-tier conference. This pivotal achievement, in particular, has profoundly shaped my future aspirations and motivated me to aim much higher. Beyond the technical growth, I greatly valued engaging with like-minded individuals and becoming aware of the broader AI safety community and opportunities. Moreover, Apart's highly accommodating programs provided essential flexibility, a key factor that makes participation feasible for many members. I am very optimistic about the organization and wholeheartedly believe in its continued ability to produce world-class, socially impactful research.

Siya Singh

Student - Independent AIS researcher

I don't think anything has helped my career in AI Safety more than Apart; if it weren't for their hackathons (I participated in the 'Women in AI Safety' one), my contribution to the community might have remained passive for a long time.

Their hackathon is what spurred action for me; the resources and help they provided were instrumental for the creation of the resource that I eventually managed after the hackathon. Apart has continued to incubate support for my work in AI safety by accepting me into their Studio program, where they have provided me with ample feedback and connected me to many skilled researchers and teams working on similar projects. I'm eternally grateful to Apart, and it receives my highest recommendation.

Chandler Smith

Research Engineer - Cooperative AI Foundation

Today, because of Apart Research's initial spark, I'm thriving in a full-time AI safety research role, having left my engineering position behind after graduation. 

From being a curious engineering student to a published researcher with a dedicated mentor, my career trajectory has been utterly transformed in just a few months. I'm eternally grateful for the comprehensive preparation, collaborative atmosphere, and invaluable connections that Apart Research fostered

Peter Barnett

Technical AI Governance Researcher at MIRI

Aparts hackathons and other community building seems pretty great, and often produce actually useful work.

Yixiong Hao

Co Director - AI Safety Initiative at Georgia Tech

We worked with apart research to deliver two AI safety hackathons to the Georgia Tech campus, totalling over 50 participants. About half of them are now engaged members of our initiative and said they want to pursue careers in AI safety.
Apart research has some of the best people I’ve personally worked with and their wider connections and resources were invaluable for us.

Amirali Abdullah

Lead Al Safety Researcher at Thoughtworks

I'd say it's very easy to outline the direct consequence of Apart's support of me has placed at least 3 people directly into full time AI safety and understanding jobs (me, Philip, and Narmeen), connected two professors (and six students amongst them) to several hundred thousand of AI safety funding, and led to multiple research streams.

When stating the impact of Apart, it's easy to focus just on publication numbers and citations. But it's so critical also the venue they provide for people to entire AI safety and build AI safety careers. If just the 1 paper of mine they facilitated can produce approximately $1 million of indirect impact on AI safety funding and salaries, can one imagine the aggregate impact of Apart's scores of papers and projects?

Mathias Kirk Bonde

Head of Advocacy at ControlAI

One thing I really like about Apart is how meritocratic it is. Anyone can sign up for a hackathon, and if your project is great, win a prize. They then help prize winners with turning their project into publishable research. This year two prize winners even ended up presenting their work orally at ICLR (!!).

And it turns out that when you look just at quality of the work, you'll find that it comes from all over the world - often countries that are otherwise underrepresented in the EA and AI safety community. I think that is really really cool.

Jacy Reese Anthis

Co-Founder of the Sentience Institute

Apart is a research institute and not just short-involvement field-building.

Jacob has his ear to the ground in AI safety, helping us prioritize the most impactful research directions, take advantage of diverse methodologies, and ensure we stay on top of the extremely fast pace of ML research.

Rauno Arike

AI safety research at Aether

Since participating in Apart Lab, I have participated in the MATS program, completed a project for the evaluations bounty offered by UK AISI, and am now working full-time on AI safety research at Aether, a small independent research group.

Apart played an important role in preparing me for those opportunities: through Apart Lab, I gained the research experience necessary for a larger-scale and more autonomous project at MATS, and at an Apart hackathon, I got my first experience building evaluations, which I ended up working on during MATS.

The skills and experiences I gained through Apart's programs significantly accelerated my progression to working full-time on alignment research.


Sami Jawhar

AI safety researcher at METR

I think the brainstorming sessions, followed by the opportunity to explore and comment on others' project ideas, made it much easier to find a project where I could help.

Fedor Ryzhenkov

Research Engineer at Palisade Research

I believe me being a part of Apart fellowship has helped me secure a place at ARENA — which has been just transformational to my career.

Jord Nguyen

Founder at Hanoi AI Safety Network | Facilitator at Non-trivial

Apart's support has been crucial in starting my AI safety career (as an undergraduate student / as an independent researcher) -- the fellowship helped me develop technical skills, research taste, and facilitated collaborations with people who i still work with today.

Luke Marks

MATS Scholar

Because anyone can participate in Apart hackathons and fellowship acceptance is decided based on hackathon projects, it is a rare opportunity to get mentorship just based on your hackathon work and not prior credentials.

The Apart Lab Fellowship probably afforded me 1.5-2 years of counterfactual career progress. All of my major projects in the last 2 years and the people I've worked with on them were available to me as a result of the fellowship.

Luhan Mikaelson

CS Student, AI Safety Researcher

For me, the hackathon was a test of my skills; it helped me gain insights into my skillset and how I should refine them further. I also got to work with a team of passionate, flexible, and committed individuals. I really enjoyed feeling the intense intervals of brainstorming and coming up with ways to make the experiment work. It made me realize that I can't wait to work on more complex projects!

Devina Jain

Cruise | AI Safety and Evaluation

Apart research offers an accessible entry point to AI safety research and it would be a tremendous loss if it didn't exist anymore - I don't believe there's another organization that does what they do!

Marcel Mir

AI Policy & Governance Researcher at the Centre for Democracy & Technology Europe

I really liked the ideas session in the hackathon and then working async with my team.

Mindy Ng

Independent AIS researcher

Apart Research has immensely helped me in my AI Safety/Alignment journey. Coming from industry, knowing about AI development and not necessarily the consequences of it has been enlightening. Through Apart, I have been able to gain a deeper understanding of AI Safety through their Hackathon, Studio and Fellowship. Not only am I able to connect with others in the lab through shared mission, but also help make an impact through rigorous research. The lab has helped develop my research skills so that I can contribute to issues that have huge need to be explored yet not many people working on it. Apart Research helps build up the talent needed so that AI Safety labs can continue to ensure safe AI. If Apart Research shuts down, this would be a huge loss not just to the research field, but society.

Joshua Landes

BlueDot Impact

It's been great collaborating with the Apart team on top-of-the-funnel fieldbuilding!

Apart has a good way to make many different kinds of bets and test ideas relatively cheaply (something I think they should lean into more!).

Reworr R.

AI Security Researcher at Palisade Research

Apart Lab helped me finalize and publish our project "Hunting for AI Hackers in the Wild: LLM Agent Honeypot."
This was my first public blog post, and Jacob and the Apart team guided me through the writing process, helping clarify technical points, structure the text clearly, and plan how to effectively share the article afterward (resources, websites, audience planning). Apart's active support significantly increased the visibility, clarity, and accessibility of the project, making the results easier to understand and share - something I couldn't have managed alone.
I gained practical skills in communicating project results and technical details, and these are already proving valuable in my current AI safety projects. Without Apart's hands-on help, this project wouldn't have come out as solid or reached as wide an audience.

Lucie Philippon

MATS Scholar; Lead organizer for AI Safety Connect 2025

Apart Sprints were useful in bootstrapping my AI Safety Career. The hackathons reports were my first publications. They also gave me concrete experience thinking about LLMs and AI strategy.

Charbel-Raphael

Executive Director - French Center for AI Safety

Apart has been useful for me to quickly experiment with ideas/improve on quick iteration. I've organised multiple hackathons before knowing apart, and their format is vastly more effective at converting talent/by unit of effort.
While I was head of EffiSciences’ AI Safety Unit, this was one of my favorite event formats, and this is one of the format that I encourage alumni of ML4Good to run.
Empirically, each apart hackathon that I organized in Paris enabled the long term careers of 0.6 person in AI Safety. This means that, on average, 0.6 new full-time persons started working on AI safety after each Apart hackathon event in Paris.

Minh Nguyen

CEO & Co-founder at Harmony Intelligence

Apart has been working for many years on building a strong, meritocratic pipeline of AIS talent, drawing from some of the most untapped pools of talent globally.

The quality and pace of their work is incredibly impressive. I'm donating to their cause and hope others who care about AIS do so as well, it would be a massive shame for an org of their impact and value not to continue on.

Prithvi Shahani

Auto Alignment Eval Builder and Research Trainer at Anthropic

Apart Research provided a combination of practical experience, professional networking, and consistent mentorship that shaped my research capabilities and career trajectory.

This project helped me join the Harvard AI Safety Team, which later connected me to my position at Anthropic and contacts at Redwood. Having concrete work to show made a real difference in these applications.

Minh Nguyen

Co-founder AI Evals Startup

Within a year of becoming an Apart Lab Fellow, I went from an undergrad without any CS or research experience to first author on an ICLR paper (winning Oral award) and co-founding a YC startup that runs agent evals for frontier labs.

I think only Apart could have enabled this, as it encourages you to pursue your own independent research agenda. There is invaluable feedback and publishing help, but Apart Lab Fellows have extraordinary research autonomy with no requirement to follow a research mentor.

Suhas Hariharan

METR/AISI Contractor | Incoming at DeepMind

Being part of the Apart community opened doors to people with a range of relevant experience, at EAG and through the broader network, which helped me develop a much more nuanced grasp of the space. The perspectives I gained through those exchanges have been central to the work I've done since with Equistamp.

Our project's acceptance at a NeurIPS workshop added credibility and gave me helpful exposure to academic writing and how ML projects are structured. That experience not only benefited my later work but also helped me build skills that I’ll be drawing on during my upcoming internship at Google DeepMind.

Perusha Moodley PhD

Research Manager, AI Safety and Alignment - MATS

I exited the Blue Dot alignment course and wanted/needed to develop my knowledge and intuitions in several branches in the field.

The hackathons provided access to a structured process, credits, talks, curated research problems and questions in a team setting. It was stimulating and facilitated deep dives, an essential element for making proper progress, aside from being an incredibly effective use of time! Via hackathons I was able to deep dive into SAEs in multi-agent settings and AI control.

The opportunity to continue with the project via the lab studio is similarly useful for gaining real research experience. Apart does not limit who can participate unlike some of the fellowships and programs in this space, which can be a lifeline for people to continue their education. Providing these services can only serve and expand the community, which is why I have recommended the hackathons to many people already.

Davide Zani

AI Red Teamer at HiddenLayer

My key outcomes since Apart Research:
- Published a paper at ICLR as a bachelor's student (something I never thought possible before Apart)
- This publication significantly strengthened my CV and helped me land a role at a leading AI CyberSecurity company
- Successfully grew our local AI safety community through Apart sprint hosting

How Apart specifically contributed:
- Provided essential compute funding that made my research project feasible
- Offered guidance on project scoping and feasibility assessment that kept me on track
- Gave me the confidence boost needed to pursue and complete ambitious research as an undergrad

Additional impact: As co-director of AISIG (AI Safety Initiative Groningen), hosting Apart Research sprints has been incredibly valuable for community building. Apart provided not just the platform, but also ready-made content, participant incentives, and marketing materials. This made it extremely efficient for us to attract and engage new members in our local AI safety community.

Chetan Talele

Independent AIS Researcher

My time at Apart has provided me exposure to AI safety, its research landscape, and its communities, which is an opportunity that would have been difficult to access otherwise, considering how niche and underrepresented the field is in my surroundings.

Bart Bussmann

MATS Scholar; Independent AI Safety Researcher

During an Apart Research hackathon I got my first hands-on experience with mechanistic interpretability and fell in love with it. Now I'm working on mechinterp full-time and have published mechinterp papers at ICLR and ICML. Generally their hackathons are very accessible, well-organized, and a great entry-point for people interested in AI safety.

Jasmina Urdshals

Independent AI Safety Researcher

The best part was the good feeling of having worked really hard on a project (and gotten valuable support when needed), having some acceptable results and finally being done with them in time to submit.

Teun

Independent Al safety research

I would recommend mentoring to others.

I think most of the impact you have is by upskilling newer folks and the impact of the research itself. [The Sandbag Detection] project was interesting, and it has been used by e.g. Anthropic and UK AISI.

Hoang-Long Tran

AI Safety Research Fellow at the Al Safety Global Society

The hackathon was an amazing opportunity for me to collaborate with brilliant people from around the world. Working across multiple time zones, my team tackled the challenge of researching how to detect and stop prompt jailbreaking attacks on LLMs. The experience of brainstorming, learning, and solving problems together was truly inspiring. Winning the 2nd prize was the icing on the cake and a testament to the hard work and creativity of our team.

Andres Sepulveda Morales

FoCo AI for Everyone Lead

In a way, one of my projects with Apart literally opened the door to support the community through education on generative AI.

Denis D’Ambrosi

Software Engineer at Bending Spoons

Collaborating with Apart has been a transformative experience for me and my teammates.

The credibility and visibility we gained from working with Apart even secured us an invitation to OpenAI's private cybersecurity conference this May, a clear testament to the lab's impactful guidance and extensive reach.

Abby Lupi

Lead, Senior Data Analyst - Responsible AI & Social Impact Research

Apart Research forms a critical entry point to contributing meaningfully to research into the powerful technologies poised to shape our future. It is absolutely essential that we expand participation in AI ethics and safety research beyond the institutions that have the most money and power.
As a widely recognized and growingly accessible nonprofit, Apart is uniquely positioned to elevate global, diverse, and underrepresented voices in this critical conversation. I'm personally thankful for Apart as an early career researcher without a graduate degree who is now equipped to contribute to the research community; something I previously thought was out of reach.

Markela Zeneli

ML Engineer

Apart Research is the most accessible AI Safety research group I have encountered. Their pipeline of hackathons -> studio -> lab fellow is unique, and given the number of successful papers that come out of the lab, the pipeline works. Apart also acts as a catalyst for people that want to career-switch into AI Safety, and the mentorship I have received from them has been the most impactful and valuable contribution to my personal journey.
Balancing accessibility with ops can be incredibly tricky, but Apart have a proven track record of being able to balance it. Every member is dedicated to producing -exceptional- research, whilst bringing people up to speed with the latest developments and unbiased viewpoints.

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Jim Chapman

Donated $400

I think Apart Research's hackathons are a great place for community and skill building. I want your work to continue.

Lucie Philippon

Donated $20

Apart Sprints were useful in bootstrapping my AI Safety Career. The hackathons reports were my first publications. They also gave me concrete experience thinking about LLMs and AI strategy.

Nyasha Duri

Donated $30

Apart Research is an exceptional, vital, and impactful community to say the least. Without it, I would not have been able to connect with such a transformative, inclusive, and unique network now. Having experienced and or evaluated many other formats, I believe that their model is the most effective and efficient.

The experiences I gained have been very helpful for my career overall - instrumental in terms of focusing more on AI Safety. To name just one example of the many different ways in which it has been extremely valuable, leading to inbound opportunities with multinationals, national firms, plus a leading local education institution.

I 100% feel this is one of the best things I have ever been a part of, where so much talent abounds from fellow participants, mentors, speakers and so on. As for the great minds behind the scenes powering things, I have had the privilege of collaborating with many incredible teams over the past decade: they truly stand out as among the best of the best.

Also, I know how meaningful it is to other people, including those who tell me they have yet to take part in a research sprint but aspire to do so. Not being able to continue this essential work would be a huge loss, not to mention at such a crucial time for the field.

What I have written above in yet another failed attempt to summarise (should have gotten an LLM involved but didn't think of it until now) does not do Apart justice; I would be happy to expand anytime.

Devina Jain

Donated $50

Apart research offers an accessible entry point to AI safety research and it would be a tremendous loss if it didn't exist anymore - I don't believe there's another organization that does what they do!

Jord Nguyen

Donated $30

Love the hackathons and the Apart community! They were very useful when I first started safety research.

Eitan Sprejer

Apart makes a huge impact by providing early career aspiring AI Safety researchers the opportunity to do a research project on a weekend, and have something to show for to get accepted on research internships

Anon

I first got into mech interp by going to an Apart Hackathon. I have enjoyed every Apart Hackathon that I've participated in and found them to be extremely productive.

Evelyn Ciara

Donated $26

I participated Apart's security evaluations hackathon with a friend last May, and it helped me get in the foot in the door and start exploring the AI safety technical research space. I believe that Apart's hackathons and other programs are a critical part of the talent pipeline for the AI safety community and it would be a shame if they had to shut down due to lack of funding.

Auguste Baum

Donated $20

Apart is a great community to get up to speed in AI safety

Felix Michalak

Donated $10

AI Safety is suffering from Elitism, induced by scarce financial resources that then also have to be used to accommodate high-paying jobs to make carreer switches more attractive. Even though the interest in AI Safety has grown tremendously, these dynamics are still in place and almost no one offers low entry points for early career individuals (e.g. students in undergraduate studies).

Apart is the only organization I know that goes against this elitist trend by offering support and guidance to virtually anyone who is seriously interested in AI Safety research, no matter their previous qualifications. The (AI Safety) world needs more research and field-building organizations like Apart, as otherwise the field of AI Safety will not manage to develop fast enough to solve fundamental issues before it's too late.

Apart had a tremendous impact on the development of my research skills and interests, and I am grateful for their existence. This organization cannot cease to exist, as it would be detrimental to the AI Safety landscape.

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