We’re excited to announce that Kairos is taking over the Global Challenges Project!
After running a successful and cost-effective program, GCP’s former leadership has accepted other opportunities. Kairos will serve as the new institutional home for GCP, and we’re excited to add this program to our portfolio to ensure GCP can continue running!
GCP hosts intensive three-day workshops for participants around the world to think critically about AI safety and biosecurity. From the data we’ve seen, we believe they have a strong track record of motivating highly talented people to contribute to these fields and arming them with the knowledge and context they need to get started.
We think GCP and other in-person workshops fill an important niche in providing an entry point into catastrophic risk reduction, especially for generalists and non-technical talent. Despite being an in-person program, GCP costs about the same amount per participant as our remote research mentorship program, SPAR, and we believe its impact on participants is within an order of magnitude of SPAR’s.
We’re also excited about synergies between GCP, SPAR, and our student group support program, Pathfinder, as we expect these programs will naturally support each other’s participant pipelines.
GCP workshops will go on a brief hiatus as we transition the workshops to Kairos. We'll announce updated workshop dates in the future, but it’s likely the next one will happen in March or April of 2026.
We’re hiring for someone to lead GCP at Kairos! This is an exciting role for an agentic, impact-motivated person with events experience and enough AI safety and biosecurity context to present on these topics and field questions from sharp participants. Our GCP Director will have significant autonomy to shape the future of the workshop series, and will lead other Kairos initiatives like our OASIS workshops for student organizers. Click here to learn more and apply.