All Sprints
Every Apart Sprint since 2022, and the partner hackathons run with Apart’s support.
Upcoming Sprints
- Oct 23 - 25, 2026Online and in person
AI Collusion Research Sprint
A weekend research sprint on collusion between AI agents: when it emerges in markets and everyday workflows, how to detect and audit it, how it is carried, and what breaks it. Co-organized with Poseidon Research and AE Studio, online with in-person hubs at Collider in New York City and AI Safety Hong Kong. Top teams are invited to apply to the Apart Fellowship.
Read the brief: AI Collusion Research Sprint - Nov 13 - 15, 2026Online
AI x Epistemics Research Sprint
A weekend research sprint on AI for epistemics: evaluating whether models know how solid their claims are, building trust infrastructure that people and agents can consume, and shipping epistemic products that improve real decisions. Online, four tracks including an open track. Top teams are invited to apply to the Apart Fellowship.
Read the brief: AI x Epistemics Research Sprint
Past Sprints and partner hackathons
- Sep 2026AI Incident Response SprintOnline and in personOnline and in person233 projects
- Aug 2026Digital Minds Research SprintOnline and in personOnline and in person233 projects
- Jul 2026Secret Loyalties HackathonOnline and in personOnline and in person177 projects
- Jun 2026Global South AI Safety HackathonOnline and in personOnline and in person216 projects
- May 2026The Secure Program Synthesis HackathonOnline and in personOnline and in person61 projects
- Apr 2026AIxBio HackathonOnline and in personOnline and in person
- Mar 2026AI Control Hackathon 2026OnlineOnline125 projects
- Jan 2026The Technical AI Governance ChallengeOnlineOnline47 projects
- Jan 2026AI Manipulation HackathonOnlineOnline70 projects
- Nov 2025Defensive Acceleration HackathonOnlineOnline84 projects
- Oct 2025The AI Forecasting HackathonOnlineOnline34 projects
- Sep 2025ARENA 6.0 Mechanistic Interpretability HackathonIn person · LISA, LondonIn person · LISA, London
- Sep 2025CBRN AI Risks Research SprintOnlineOnline
- Jul 2025AI Safety x Physics Grand ChallengeOnlineOnline21 projects
- Jun 2025Red Teaming A Narrow Path: ControlAI Policy SprintOnlineOnline20 projects
- May 2025Apart x Martian Mechanistic Router Interpretability HackathonOnlineOnline19 projects
- Apr 2025Economics of Transformative AIOnlineOnline12 projects
- Apr 2025Berkeley AI Policy Hackathon, Partner hackathonOnline and in personOnline and in person11 projects
- Apr 2025Georgia Tech AISI Policy Hackathon, Partner hackathonGeorgia Tech Campus & OnlineGeorgia Tech Campus & Online4 projects
- Apr 2025Dark Patterns in AGI Hackathon at ZAIAZurichZurich3 projects
- Mar 2025AI Control Hackathon 2025London & OnlineLondon & Online19 projects
- Mar 2025Women in AI Safety HackathonOnline and in personOnline and in person33 projects
- Jan 2025AI Safety Entrepreneurship HackathonOnline and in personOnline and in person19 projects
- Nov 2024Autostructures: interfaces not between humans and AI, but between humans via AI, Partner hackathonOnline and in personOnline and in person
- Nov 2024Reprogramming AI Models HackathonOnline and in personOnline and in person28 projects
- Nov 2024Howard University AI Safety Summit & Policy Hackathon, Partner hackathonWashington, D.C. & OnlineWashington, D.C. & Online10 projects
- Oct 2024AI Policy Hackathon at Johns Hopkins UniversityWashington DCWashington DC29 projects
- Oct 2024Agent Security HackathonOnline and in personOnline and in person12 projects
- Sep 2024ARENA 4.0 Interpretability HackathonOnline and in personOnline and in person4 projects
- Sep 2024The Concordia ContestOnline and in personOnline and in person5 projects
- Aug 2024Hackathon for Technical AI Safety StartupsOnline and in personOnline and in person12 projects
- Aug 2024AI capabilities and risks demo-jamOnline and in personOnline and in person17 projects
- Jul 2024Research Augmentation HackathonOnline and in personOnline and in person9 projects
- Jun 2024Deception Detection Hackathon: Preventing AI deceptionOnline and in personOnline and in person21 projects
- Jun 2024Computational Mechanics HackathonOnline and in personOnline and in person8 projects
- May 2024AI Security Evaluation Hackathon: Measuring AI CapabilityOnline and in personOnline and in person12 projects
- May 2024AI and Democracy Hackathon: Demonstrating the RisksOnline and in personOnline and in person25 projects
- Apr 2024InterpVisLondonLondon
- Apr 2024LLM Psychology HackathonOnline and in personOnline and in person
- Mar 2024Code Red Hackathon: Can LLMs Replicate and do R&D by Themselves?Online and in personOnline and in person
- Feb 2024Multi-Agent Security Research SprintOnline and in personOnline and in person
- Jan 2024The AI Governance Research SprintOnline and in personOnline and in person
- Nov 2023AI Model Evaluations HackathonOnline and in personOnline and in person
- Sep 2023Multi-Agent Safety HackathonOnline and in personOnline and in person
- Sep 2023The Agency Foundations ChallengeOnline and in personOnline and in person
- Aug 2023Distillation Write-a-thon 2.0Online and in personOnline and in person
- Aug 2023LLM Evals HackathonOnline and in personOnline and in person
- Jul 2023Interpretability Hackathon 3.0Online and in personOnline and in person
- Jun 2023Safety Benchmarks HackathonOnline and in personOnline and in person
- Jun 2023Distillation Write-a-thonOnline and in personOnline and in person
- May 2023ML Verifiability HackathonOnline and in personOnline and in person
- Apr 2023The Interpretability Hackathon 2.0Online and in personOnline and in person
- Mar 2023AI GovernanceOnline and in personOnline and in person
- Feb 2023Scale Oversight for Machine Learning HackathonOnline and in personOnline and in person
- Jan 2023Mechanistic Interpretability HackathonOnline and in personOnline and in person
- Jan 2023EAGx LatAm Epoch AI HackathonOnline and in personOnline and in person
- Dec 2022AI TestingOnline and in personOnline and in person
- Nov 2022The Interpretability HackathonOnline and in personOnline and in person
- Sep 2022Language Model HackathonOnline and in personOnline and in person