Programs
Sprints are weekend research hackathons on one AI safety topic, remote-first, open to anyone in the world. Fellowships are months of mentored research towards a paper: the Apart Fellowship by invitation after a Sprint, Partnered Fellowships by direct application.
A weekend in a team on one AI safety question, online or at a local site.
Stand out
6 to 16 weeks on your own project, with a research project manager, compute and publication support.
Apply to a partner organization’s project: a written application, work test or interview.
Selected by mentors
About 16 weeks on the partner’s research agenda, mentored by its researchers.
Papers at venues like NeurIPS, ICLR and ACL.
About once a month, online and at local sites. Teams take one open AI safety question and, over a weekend, build something others can check: an experiment, an evaluation, a dataset or a tool. No AI safety background needed.
More about SprintsRemote and part-time, minimum of 10 hours per week, with compute, travel and publication support. There are two:
Oct 23 - 25, 2026 · Online and in person
Nov 13 - 15, 2026 · Online
No Partnered Fellowship is taking applications right now.
1,700+ projects from 60+ Sprints since 2022.
Digital Minds Research Sprint
Welfare-like internal representations are increasingly studied as candidate evidence about AI systems. Their entity attribution—whether a valence state belongs to the active …
AI Control Hackathon 2026
MAIA
AI control protocols monitor agent actions to detect sabotage, but omission attacks exploit what the agent fails to do rather than what it does. We define omission attacks as …
The Technical AI Governance Challenge
Lida Safety
We simulate well-known figures in AI and politics with agents, scraping large amounts of data to get realistic simulations. Then, we test questions and proposed policies against …