Programs
We have run a broad array of programs that have developed talent in South Africa to respond to AI risk. We have seeded AI safety student groups at top South African universities, run AI safety fundamentals courses, upskilling retreats and full research fellowships. Participants of these programs have made significant career transitions as a result, joining world-class upskilling programs such as MATS, publishing AI safety research at top AI conferences, or getting jobs at globally relevant AI safety organisations. Through these programs, we have developed a community of exceptional talent and established key partnerships with top local universities and globally relevant AI safety organisations.
The fellowship was a full-time 3-month research program for participants from diverse backgrounds around the world to pursue AI safety research from a cooperative AI perspective. The fellowship ran from January to April...
BlueDot's Intro to Transformative AI Course The second iteration of our Intro to TAI course, where we hosted a 5-day course in collaboration with BlueDot at our coworking offices at Innovation City. We ran multiple cohor...
Introduction to Cooperative AI Course by The Cooperative AI Foundation We ran a 13 week program covering the Cooperative AI Curriculum from the Cooperative AI Foundation. This was the first official in-person cohort of t...
BlueDot's Intro to Transformative AI Course First official in-person cohort ever. We hosted a 5-day course in collaboration with BlueDot at our coworking offices at Innovation City. One of the participants wrote about hi...
Seeded Stellenbosch AI Safety (Stellies AI Safety) Elected community organisers - Boyd Kane (Lead) - Nicholas Lombard Hosted First Meetup.
We established a co-working space at Innovation City in October which can house up to 6 of our community members. On Wednesday afternoons we are regularly fully booked, before we host our reading group in one of the boar...
Seeded AI Safety University of Witwatersrand (AI Safety WITS) Hosted the first meetup: 23 people attended the event. One person provided feedback on the feedback form, rating the event 10/10