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Do you have AI Safety research ideas that you would like to work on with others? Is there a project you want to do and you want help finding a team? AI Safety Camp could be the solution for you!
AI Safety Camp Virtual is a 3-month long online research program from January to April 2025, where participants form teams to work on pre-selected projects. We want you to suggest the projects!
If you have an AI Safety project idea and some research experience, apply to be a Research Lead. If accepted, we offer some assistance to develop your idea into a plan suitable for AI Safety Camp. When project plans are ready, we open up team member applications. You get to review applications for your team, and select who joins as a team member. From there, it’s your job to guide work on your project.
Who is qualified?
We require that you have some previous research experience. If you are at least 1 year into a PhD or if you have completed an AI Safety research program (such as a previous AI Safety Camp, PIBBSS, MATS, and similar), or done a research internship with an AI Safety org, then you are qualified already. Other research experience can count, too.
More senior researchers are of course also welcome, as long as you think our format of leading an online team inquiring into your research questions suits you and your research.
We require that all Research Leads are active participants in their projects and spend at least 10h/week on AISC.
If you are unsure, or have any questions you are welcome to:
AI Safety Camp is about ensuring future AIs are either reasonably safe or not built at all.
We welcome many types of projects including projects aimed at stopping or pausing AI development, aligning AI, deconfusion research, or anything else you think will help make the world safer from AI. If you like, you can read more of our perspectives on AI safety, or look at past projects.
If you already have an idea for what project you would like to lead, that’s great. Apply with that one!
However, you don’t need to come up with an original idea. What matters is you understanding the idea you want to work on, and why. If you base your proposal on someone else's idea, make sure to cite them.
You can submit as many project proposals as you want. However, you are only allowed to lead one project.
Use this template to describe each of your project proposals. We want one document per proposal.
As part of the Research Lead application process, we’ll help you improve your project. The organiser whose ideas match best with yours, will work with you to create the best version of your project.
We will also ask for assistance from previous Research Leads, and up to a handful of other trusted people, to give you additional feedback.
Research Lead applications
Team member applications:
Program
Afterwards
As part of the Research Lead application process we will help you improve your project plan, mainly through comments on your document. How much support we can provide depends on the number of applications we get. However, everyone who applies on time (before September 22nd) is guaranteed at least one 1-on-1 call with someone on the AISC team, to discuss your proposal.
Your application will not be judged based on your initial proposal, but on the refined proposal, after you had the opportunity to respond to our feedback. The final deadline for improving your proposal is October 20th.
Your Research Lead application will be judged based on:
As Research Leads, you can apply to receive a stipend of $1500 USD (for the entire program, not per month).
For your team members we may be limited to only giving stipends to people from lower income countries. This will depend on the outcome of our fundraising.
AISC is currently run online, but if you want to turn it into an in-person program, you can apply to stay at EA Hotel (Blackpool, UK) during all or part of AISC. The EA Hotel staff has told us that AISC participants are very likely to be accepted as residents.
If you choose to stay at EA Hotel, you can decide to preferentially accept team members who are able to join you there. If this is something you want to do, we can discuss the logistical details more during your Research Lead application.
Please mind that AISC is open and welcoming to people from many communities, so you might end up missing out on some applicants if you select for affinity with Effective Altruism (EA).
If you have a project idea and you are willing to lead or guide a team working on this idea, you should apply to be a Research Lead.
We don’t expect a fully formed research plan! If we think your idea is suitable for AISC, we can help you to improve it.
If you are unsure, or have any further questions you are welcome to: