apart sprints

Past Events

Here you can see all hackathons organized by Apart.

Apr 25, 2025

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Apr 27, 2025

Economics of Transformative AI: Research Sprint

This weekend-long collaborative research event provides a structured environment to develop novel economic frameworks, models, and insights that can inform our understanding of AI's transformative potential.

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Apr 25, 2025

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Apr 26, 2025

Berkeley AI Policy Hackathon

The purpose of this hackathon is to provide a space for students to advocate for solutions to AI policy issues that many lawmakers and technologists are thinking about, both in California and beyond.

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Apr 5, 2025

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Apr 6, 2025

Georgia Tech AISI Policy Hackathon

Join the Georgia Tech AI Governance Hackathon and shape the future of AI policy! Collaborate with peers, experts, and mentors to develop innovative solutions for critical AI governance challenges. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, policy wonk, or ethical thinker, your ideas can make a real impact. Don't miss this opportunity to contribute to global AI safety and elevate Georgia Tech's role in the field. Register now and be part of the change!

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Mar 29, 2025

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Mar 30, 2025

AI Control Hackathon 2025

Join us in advancing the critical field of AI control through collaborative innovation. Together, we can develop more robust techniques to ensure AI systems remain safe and aligned, even as they become more capable.

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Mar 7, 2025

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Mar 14, 2025

Women in AI Safety Hackathon

Shape the future of safe and ethical AI development! Whether you're a researcher, developer, policy enthusiast, or new to AI safety - join us for an empowering weekend of innovation and collaboration. No prior AI safety experience required. Together, we can build the foundational tools and frameworks needed for responsible AI development.

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Jan 17, 2025

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Jan 20, 2025

AI Safety Entrepreneurship Hackathon

Join us during this weekend where we will join you to kick off an ambitious journey into AI safety and security with other aligned and talented individuals from both science and business. We aim to bring solution-oriented deep tech to AI safety. This is your chance to literally change the world.

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Nov 23, 2024

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Nov 25, 2024

Autostructures: interfaces not between humans and AI, but between humans *via* AI

Join us for creating for the near future where our infrastructure is embedded with realistic levels of intelligence (i.e., only mildly creative but widely adopted) yet full of novel, wild design paradigms anyway.

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Nov 22, 2024

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Nov 25, 2024

Reprogramming AI Models Hackathon

Whether you're an AI researcher, a curious developer, or passionate about making AI systems more transparent and controllable, this hackathon is for you. As a participant, you will: Collaborate with experts to create novel AI observability tools Learn about mechanistic interpretability from industry leaders Contribute to solving real-world challenges in AI safety and reliability Compete for prizes and the opportunity to influence the future of AI development Register now and be part of the movement towards more transparent, reliable, and beneficial AI systems. We provide access to Goodfire's SDK/API and research preview playground, enabling participation regardless of prior experience with AI observability.

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Nov 21, 2024

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Nov 22, 2024

Howard University AI Safety Summit & Policy Hackathon

The purpose of this hackathon is to foster innovative policy solutions addressing the complex landscape of AI governance and safety, with a particular focus on practical implementations and regulatory frameworks.

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Oct 26, 2024

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Oct 28, 2024

AI Policy Hackathon at Johns Hopkins University

Join us for a weekend of collaboration, problem-solving, and networking as you work with like-minded peers to tackle real-world policy challenges related to AI. Participants will submit either a policy paper or a technological product. This opportunity is a great way to build your professional network and explore new career paths!

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Oct 4, 2024

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Oct 7, 2025

Agent Security Hackathon

During this hackathon, we'll put our research skills to the test by diving deep into the world of agents:

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Sep 15, 2024

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Sep 15, 2024

ARENA 4.0 Interpretability Hackathon

Hackathon for working on interpretability projects during ARENA v4. These could be training or interpreting SAEs, finding circuits in GPT2-Small, training & interpreting toy transformer models on algorithmic tasks, building visualization software / infra for interpretability research, or anything else you can think of!

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Sep 6, 2024

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Sep 9, 2024

The Concordia Contest

The Concordia Contest is your opportunity to dive into the exciting world of cooperative AI. Whether you're an experienced AI researcher, a curious developer, or someone passionate about ensuring AI benefits humanity, this event is for you

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Aug 30, 2024

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Sep 2, 2024

Hackathon for Technical AI Safety Startups

Join us during this weekend where we will join you to kick off an ambitious journey into AI safety and security with other aligned and talented individuals from both science and business. We aim to bring solution-oriented deep tech to AI safety. This is your chance to literally change the world.

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Aug 23, 2024

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Aug 26, 2024

AI capabilities and risks demo-jam

As frontier AI systems become rapidly more powerful and general, and as their risks become more pressing, it’s increasingly important for key decision-makers and the public to understand their capabilities. Let’s bring these insights out of dusty Arxiv papers and build visceral, immediately engaging demos!

Read More

Jul 26, 2024

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Jul 29, 2024

Research Augmentation Hackathon

Are you ready to reshape the future of alignment research? Join us for an exhilarating weekend at the Research Augmentation Hackathon, where we'll develop innovative tools and methods to accelerate progress in this critical field!

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Jun 28, 2024

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Jul 1, 2024

Deception Detection Hackathon: Preventing AI deception

re you fascinated by the incredible advancements in AI? As AI becomes smarter and more powerful, it's essential that we make sure it always tells the truth and doesn't trick people. Imagine if an AI could manipulate narratives or try to scheme—that could lead to serious problems!

Read More

Jun 1, 2024

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Jun 3, 2024

Computational Mechanics Hackathon

The Computational Mechanics Interpretability Hackathon takes a new approach to neural network interpretability based on a well-developed and principled framework called Computational Mechanics. Computational Mechanics formally describes the information processing and computational structure necessary for prediction. Come join us to contribute to this exciting new research program and your chance at winning cash prizes!

Read More

May 24, 2024

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May 27, 2024

AI Security Evaluation Hackathon: Measuring AI Capability

Inspired by the SafeBench competition, our hackathon brings together AI researchers and developers to create cutting-edge benchmarks that measure and mitigate AI risks.

Read More

May 3, 2024

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May 6, 2024

AI and Democracy Hackathon: Demonstrating the Risks

Despite the many potential benefits of the technology (such as equalizing opportunity, creating wealth, and improving coordination), we are also facing significant risks from AI.

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Apr 13, 2024

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Apr 14, 2024

InterpVis

Join us at the LISA offices for InterpVis, the first mechanistic interpretability hackathon with a focus on creating visualisations.

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Apr 5, 2024

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Apr 7, 2024

LLM Psychology Hackathon

Join us for weekends focused on LLM Psychology.

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Mar 22, 2024

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Mar 25, 2024

Code Red Hackathon: Can LLMs Replicate and do R&D by Themselves?

Join our groundbreaking hackathon to create tests that identify when AI can copy itself - a critical safety risk. Your innovative tasks could shape global AI standards. Make your mark, potentially collaborate with a prominent AI safety lab, and win big. Sign up now for an impactful weekend!

Read More

Feb 9, 2024

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Feb 11, 2024

Multi-Agent Security Research Sprint

Securing multi-agent systems in deployment

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Jan 5, 2024

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Jan 7, 2024

The AI Governance Research Sprint

Design, develop, guide, and predict AI governance in a three day research sprint

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Nov 24, 2023

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Nov 26, 2023

AI Model Evaluations Hackathon

Expose the unknown unknowns of AI model behavior

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Sep 29, 2023

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Oct 1, 2023

Multi-Agent Safety Hackathon

Co-author research opportunity with Cooperative AI Foundation

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Sep 8, 2023

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Sep 24, 2023

The Agency Foundations Challenge

Safeguarding human agency against A(G)I

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Aug 24, 2023

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Aug 26, 2023

Distillation Write-a-thon 2.0

Join us for the Distillation Writathon where you are tasked with writing more digestible versions of existing literature in AI safety research and theory!

Read More

Aug 18, 2023

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Aug 20, 2023

LLM Evals Hackathon

Welcome to the research hackathon to devise methods for evaluating the risks of deployed language models and AI. With the societal-scale risks associated with creating new types of intelligence, we need to understand and control the capabilities of such models.

Read More

Jul 14, 2023

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Jul 16, 2023

Interpretability Hackathon 3.0

Join us to understand the internals of language models and ML systems!

Read More

Jun 30, 2023

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Jul 2, 2023

Safety Benchmarks Hackathon

Participate in the Alignment Jam on safety benchmarks to spend a weekend with AI safety researchers to formulate and demonstrate new ideas in measuring the safety of artificially intelligent systems.

Read More

Jun 16, 2023

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Jun 18, 2023

Distillation Write-a-thon

Join us for the Distillation Writathon where you are tasked with writing more digestible versions of existing literature in AI safety research and theory!

Read More

May 26, 2023

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May 28, 2023

Verifiable Safety Hackathon

Join us for this month's Alignment Jam as investigate verifiable safety!

Read More

May 26, 2023

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May 28, 2023

ML Verifiability Hackathon

Join us for this month's Alignment Jam to investigate how we can both formally and informally verify the safety of machine learning systems!

Read More

Apr 14, 2023

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Apr 17, 2023

The Interpretability Hackathon 2.0

We focus on interpreting the innards of neural networks using methods developed from mechanistic interpretability

Read More

Mar 24, 2023

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Mar 27, 2023

AI Governance

A weekend for exploring AI & society!

Read More

Feb 10, 2023

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Feb 13, 2023

Scale Oversight for Machine Learning Hackathon

Join us for the fifth Alignment Jam where we get to spend 48 hours of intense research on how we can measure and monitor the safety of large-scale machine learning models. Work on safety benchmarks, models detecting faults in other models, self-monitoring systems , and  so much else!

Read More

Jan 20, 2023

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Jan 23, 2023

Mechanistic Interpretability Hackathon

Machine learning is becoming an increasingly important part of our lives and researchers are still working to understand how neural networks represent the world.

Read More

Jan 9, 2023

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Jan 11, 2023

EAGx LatAm Epoch AI Hackathon

Alignment Jam #1

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Dec 15, 2022

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Dec 17, 2022

AI Testing

AI Testing

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Nov 11, 2022

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Nov 13, 2022

The Interpretability Hackathon

48 hours intense research in interpretability, the modern AI neuroscience.

Read More

Sep 29, 2022

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Oct 1, 2022

Language Model Hackathon

Alignment Jam #1

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Apr 25, 2025

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Apr 27, 2025

Economics of Transformative AI: Research Sprint

This weekend-long collaborative research event provides a structured environment to develop novel economic frameworks, models, and insights that can inform our understanding of AI's transformative potential.

Read More

Apr 25, 2025

-

Apr 26, 2025

Berkeley AI Policy Hackathon

The purpose of this hackathon is to provide a space for students to advocate for solutions to AI policy issues that many lawmakers and technologists are thinking about, both in California and beyond.

Read More

Apr 5, 2025

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Apr 6, 2025

Georgia Tech AISI Policy Hackathon

Join the Georgia Tech AI Governance Hackathon and shape the future of AI policy! Collaborate with peers, experts, and mentors to develop innovative solutions for critical AI governance challenges. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, policy wonk, or ethical thinker, your ideas can make a real impact. Don't miss this opportunity to contribute to global AI safety and elevate Georgia Tech's role in the field. Register now and be part of the change!

Read More

Mar 29, 2025

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Mar 30, 2025

AI Control Hackathon 2025

Join us in advancing the critical field of AI control through collaborative innovation. Together, we can develop more robust techniques to ensure AI systems remain safe and aligned, even as they become more capable.

Read More

Mar 7, 2025

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Mar 14, 2025

Women in AI Safety Hackathon

Shape the future of safe and ethical AI development! Whether you're a researcher, developer, policy enthusiast, or new to AI safety - join us for an empowering weekend of innovation and collaboration. No prior AI safety experience required. Together, we can build the foundational tools and frameworks needed for responsible AI development.

Read More

Jan 17, 2025

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Jan 20, 2025

AI Safety Entrepreneurship Hackathon

Join us during this weekend where we will join you to kick off an ambitious journey into AI safety and security with other aligned and talented individuals from both science and business. We aim to bring solution-oriented deep tech to AI safety. This is your chance to literally change the world.

Read More

Nov 23, 2024

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Nov 25, 2024

Autostructures: interfaces not between humans and AI, but between humans *via* AI

Join us for creating for the near future where our infrastructure is embedded with realistic levels of intelligence (i.e., only mildly creative but widely adopted) yet full of novel, wild design paradigms anyway.

Read More

Nov 22, 2024

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Nov 25, 2024

Reprogramming AI Models Hackathon

Whether you're an AI researcher, a curious developer, or passionate about making AI systems more transparent and controllable, this hackathon is for you. As a participant, you will: Collaborate with experts to create novel AI observability tools Learn about mechanistic interpretability from industry leaders Contribute to solving real-world challenges in AI safety and reliability Compete for prizes and the opportunity to influence the future of AI development Register now and be part of the movement towards more transparent, reliable, and beneficial AI systems. We provide access to Goodfire's SDK/API and research preview playground, enabling participation regardless of prior experience with AI observability.

Read More

Nov 21, 2024

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Nov 22, 2024

Howard University AI Safety Summit & Policy Hackathon

The purpose of this hackathon is to foster innovative policy solutions addressing the complex landscape of AI governance and safety, with a particular focus on practical implementations and regulatory frameworks.

Read More

Oct 26, 2024

-

Oct 28, 2024

AI Policy Hackathon at Johns Hopkins University

Join us for a weekend of collaboration, problem-solving, and networking as you work with like-minded peers to tackle real-world policy challenges related to AI. Participants will submit either a policy paper or a technological product. This opportunity is a great way to build your professional network and explore new career paths!

Read More

Oct 4, 2024

-

Oct 7, 2025

Agent Security Hackathon

During this hackathon, we'll put our research skills to the test by diving deep into the world of agents:

Read More

Sep 15, 2024

-

Sep 15, 2024

ARENA 4.0 Interpretability Hackathon

Hackathon for working on interpretability projects during ARENA v4. These could be training or interpreting SAEs, finding circuits in GPT2-Small, training & interpreting toy transformer models on algorithmic tasks, building visualization software / infra for interpretability research, or anything else you can think of!

Read More

Sep 6, 2024

-

Sep 9, 2024

The Concordia Contest

The Concordia Contest is your opportunity to dive into the exciting world of cooperative AI. Whether you're an experienced AI researcher, a curious developer, or someone passionate about ensuring AI benefits humanity, this event is for you

Read More

Aug 30, 2024

-

Sep 2, 2024

Hackathon for Technical AI Safety Startups

Join us during this weekend where we will join you to kick off an ambitious journey into AI safety and security with other aligned and talented individuals from both science and business. We aim to bring solution-oriented deep tech to AI safety. This is your chance to literally change the world.

Read More

Aug 23, 2024

-

Aug 26, 2024

AI capabilities and risks demo-jam

As frontier AI systems become rapidly more powerful and general, and as their risks become more pressing, it’s increasingly important for key decision-makers and the public to understand their capabilities. Let’s bring these insights out of dusty Arxiv papers and build visceral, immediately engaging demos!

Read More

Jul 26, 2024

-

Jul 29, 2024

Research Augmentation Hackathon

Are you ready to reshape the future of alignment research? Join us for an exhilarating weekend at the Research Augmentation Hackathon, where we'll develop innovative tools and methods to accelerate progress in this critical field!

Read More

Jun 28, 2024

-

Jul 1, 2024

Deception Detection Hackathon: Preventing AI deception

re you fascinated by the incredible advancements in AI? As AI becomes smarter and more powerful, it's essential that we make sure it always tells the truth and doesn't trick people. Imagine if an AI could manipulate narratives or try to scheme—that could lead to serious problems!

Read More

Jun 1, 2024

-

Jun 3, 2024

Computational Mechanics Hackathon

The Computational Mechanics Interpretability Hackathon takes a new approach to neural network interpretability based on a well-developed and principled framework called Computational Mechanics. Computational Mechanics formally describes the information processing and computational structure necessary for prediction. Come join us to contribute to this exciting new research program and your chance at winning cash prizes!

Read More

May 24, 2024

-

May 27, 2024

AI Security Evaluation Hackathon: Measuring AI Capability

Inspired by the SafeBench competition, our hackathon brings together AI researchers and developers to create cutting-edge benchmarks that measure and mitigate AI risks.

Read More

May 3, 2024

-

May 6, 2024

AI and Democracy Hackathon: Demonstrating the Risks

Despite the many potential benefits of the technology (such as equalizing opportunity, creating wealth, and improving coordination), we are also facing significant risks from AI.

Read More

Apr 13, 2024

-

Apr 14, 2024

InterpVis

Join us at the LISA offices for InterpVis, the first mechanistic interpretability hackathon with a focus on creating visualisations.

Read More

Apr 5, 2024

-

Apr 7, 2024

LLM Psychology Hackathon

Join us for weekends focused on LLM Psychology.

Read More

Mar 22, 2024

-

Mar 25, 2024

Code Red Hackathon: Can LLMs Replicate and do R&D by Themselves?

Join our groundbreaking hackathon to create tests that identify when AI can copy itself - a critical safety risk. Your innovative tasks could shape global AI standards. Make your mark, potentially collaborate with a prominent AI safety lab, and win big. Sign up now for an impactful weekend!

Read More

Feb 9, 2024

-

Feb 11, 2024

Multi-Agent Security Research Sprint

Securing multi-agent systems in deployment

Read More

Jan 5, 2024

-

Jan 7, 2024

The AI Governance Research Sprint

Design, develop, guide, and predict AI governance in a three day research sprint

Read More

Nov 24, 2023

-

Nov 26, 2023

AI Model Evaluations Hackathon

Expose the unknown unknowns of AI model behavior

Read More

Sep 29, 2023

-

Oct 1, 2023

Multi-Agent Safety Hackathon

Co-author research opportunity with Cooperative AI Foundation

Read More

Sep 8, 2023

-

Sep 24, 2023

The Agency Foundations Challenge

Safeguarding human agency against A(G)I

Read More

Aug 24, 2023

-

Aug 26, 2023

Distillation Write-a-thon 2.0

Join us for the Distillation Writathon where you are tasked with writing more digestible versions of existing literature in AI safety research and theory!

Read More

Aug 18, 2023

-

Aug 20, 2023

LLM Evals Hackathon

Welcome to the research hackathon to devise methods for evaluating the risks of deployed language models and AI. With the societal-scale risks associated with creating new types of intelligence, we need to understand and control the capabilities of such models.

Read More

Jul 14, 2023

-

Jul 16, 2023

Interpretability Hackathon 3.0

Join us to understand the internals of language models and ML systems!

Read More

Jun 30, 2023

-

Jul 2, 2023

Safety Benchmarks Hackathon

Participate in the Alignment Jam on safety benchmarks to spend a weekend with AI safety researchers to formulate and demonstrate new ideas in measuring the safety of artificially intelligent systems.

Read More

Jun 16, 2023

-

Jun 18, 2023

Distillation Write-a-thon

Join us for the Distillation Writathon where you are tasked with writing more digestible versions of existing literature in AI safety research and theory!

Read More

May 26, 2023

-

May 28, 2023

Verifiable Safety Hackathon

Join us for this month's Alignment Jam as investigate verifiable safety!

Read More

May 26, 2023

-

May 28, 2023

ML Verifiability Hackathon

Join us for this month's Alignment Jam to investigate how we can both formally and informally verify the safety of machine learning systems!

Read More

Apr 14, 2023

-

Apr 17, 2023

The Interpretability Hackathon 2.0

We focus on interpreting the innards of neural networks using methods developed from mechanistic interpretability

Read More

Mar 24, 2023

-

Mar 27, 2023

AI Governance

A weekend for exploring AI & society!

Read More

Feb 10, 2023

-

Feb 13, 2023

Scale Oversight for Machine Learning Hackathon

Join us for the fifth Alignment Jam where we get to spend 48 hours of intense research on how we can measure and monitor the safety of large-scale machine learning models. Work on safety benchmarks, models detecting faults in other models, self-monitoring systems , and  so much else!

Read More

Jan 20, 2023

-

Jan 23, 2023

Mechanistic Interpretability Hackathon

Machine learning is becoming an increasingly important part of our lives and researchers are still working to understand how neural networks represent the world.

Read More

Jan 9, 2023

-

Jan 11, 2023

EAGx LatAm Epoch AI Hackathon

Alignment Jam #1

Read More

Dec 15, 2022

-

Dec 17, 2022

AI Testing

AI Testing

Read More

Nov 11, 2022

-

Nov 13, 2022

The Interpretability Hackathon

48 hours intense research in interpretability, the modern AI neuroscience.

Read More

Sep 29, 2022

-

Oct 1, 2022

Language Model Hackathon

Alignment Jam #1

Read More