MAISU starts with an Opening session on April 18th (Friday), but most of the sessions will happen during April 19th-21th. You’re welcome to join as much or little as you want.

The event is for anyone who wants to help prevent AI-driven catastrophe. Other than that, we’re open to all perspectives. However each individual session will typically have narrower scope. When attending a session please respect the specific scope of that session.

Because this is an Unconference, the schedule is open to anyone to add sessions. Expect the schedule to continuously expand as the event approaches. 

Official website

The official website is guaranteed to have the latest information. This LessWrong event post might be updated less frequently.

Register here

• If you register, you will receive email updates about the event.
• You can attend without registering, but you might miss important information.

Click here to see who else has registered.

Schedule     

Don’t worry if it looks sparse now. More sessions will be added (maybe by you?), this is how unconferences work.

You can put anything you want on the schedule, any type of session, as long as it’s safety relevant.

• If you put something on the schedule you’re responsible for hosting it.
• When scheduling something, please make sure it’s clear how it’s relevant to AI Safety (unless it’s a purely fun/social session).

Some examples of things you can host

• A talk presenting …
  • … your results
  • … other peoples results that you find interesting
  • … an intro level overview of some subset of AI safety
  • … an in-progress project you want feedback on
• An open discussion on a topic you’re interested in
• A fun game, or other social activity
• Some type of exercise that you find useful for thinking about AI safety
• Sharing your hot takes with an open invitation to debate you

General advice

• If you host a talk, make sure to leave plenty of time for discussions afterwards
• 1h hour is a good length for most sessions

Warning!
TeamUp (the scheduling app we’re using) does not automatically update. You need to manually refresh the schedule, or you might miss things. 

Sessions will be added continuously to the schedule. There will likely be some last minute additions and/or changes even after the event has started.

Discussions & Networking in the AI Alignment Slack

We don’t have an event-specific Slack or Discord, instead we’re invading the AI Alignment Slack for the duration of the event.

#events
Use this channel for event related discussions, e.g. logistics questions, or advertising your session.

#general
Use this channel for general AI Safety related discussions. Avoid anything too MAISU specific.

#introductions
Use this channel to introduce yourself to other MAISU participants and everyone else who frequents this slack. 

MAISU & AISC

MAISU is part of AISC in the sense that all AISC teams are asked to present their projects during MAISU, and the organiser of MAISU is one of the organisers for AISC.

But MAISU is also not part of AISC in the sense that it’s an open event, where anyone is invited to give a talk and/or host other sessions.