Registrations are open for SPAR Demo Day on Saturday, Dec 13!

SPAR is a research mentorship program helping aspiring researchers contribute meaningfully to frontier AI safety work. This year's virtual Demo Day (hosted in Gather Town) showcases 90+ technical and governance projects developed over 3 months by this round's stellar mentors and mentees. Projects from previous SPAR rounds have been accepted at ICML and NeurIPS, covered by TIME, and led to full-time job offers for mentees.

What to expect:

• 90+ AI safety and policy research projects spanning mechanistic interpretability, AI governance, LLM evaluations, scalable oversight, adversarial robustness, and more
• Career fair featuring organizations like METR, Coefficient Giving, MATS, Constellation, AI Futures Project, and other leading AI safety organizations
• Networking opportunities across the AI safety community

Event details (all times in Pacific):

• 8am: Gather.town space opens for networking
• 9am-10:30am: Poster presentations
• 10:30-11:30am: Lightning talks
• 11:30-12pm:
  • Career fair (SPAR participants only)
  •  Small-group AI safety discussions
• 12:00-1pm: Career fair (open to the public)
• 1pm: Prizes announced

You can view all projects and find more information here.

Interested in attending? Register here, note that spots are limited.

We hope to see you there!

SPAR is run by Kairos, a nonprofit whose mission is to help society navigate the transition to transformative AI. Mentee applications for the next SPAR round open on December 17. Express interest for future iterations of SPAR here.