Mar 10, 2025
BlueDot Impact Connect: A Comprehensive AI Safety Community Platform
Elise Racine, Aliya Koishina, Aishwarya Gurung, Tatenda Mawema, Haihao Liu
Summary
Track: Public Education
The AI safety field faces a critical challenge: while formal education resources are growing, personalized guidance and community connections remain scarce, especially for newcomers from diverse backgrounds. We propose BlueDot Impact Connect, a comprehensive AI Safety Community Platform designed to address this gap by creating a structured environment for knowledge transfer between experienced AI safety professionals and aspiring contributors, while fostering a vibrant community ecosystem. The platform will employ a sophisticated matching algorithm for mentorship that considers domain-specific expertise areas, career trajectories, and mentorship styles to create meaningful connections. Our solution features detailed AI safety-specific profiles, showcasing research publications, technical skills, specialized course completions, and research trajectories to facilitate optimal mentor-mentee pairings. The integrated community hub enables members to join specialized groups, participate in discussions, attend events, share resources, and connect with active members across the field. By implementing this platform with BlueDot Impact's community of 4,500+ professionals across 100+ countries, we anticipate significant improvements in mentee career trajectory clarity, research direction refinement, and community integration. We propose that by formalizing the mentorship process and creating robust community spaces, all accessible globally, this platform will help democratize access to AI safety expertise while creating a pipeline for expanding the field's talent pool—a crucial factor in addressing the complex challenge of catastrophic AI risk mitigation.
Cite this work:
@misc {
title={
BlueDot Impact Connect: A Comprehensive AI Safety Community Platform
},
author={
Elise Racine, Aliya Koishina, Aishwarya Gurung, Tatenda Mawema, Haihao Liu
},
date={
3/10/25
},
organization={Apart Research},
note={Research submission to the research sprint hosted by Apart.},
howpublished={https://apartresearch.com}
}
