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CAMBRIA's 1st Edition: High-Intensity & hands-on AI Safety upskilling in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

I've done a bunch of AI Safety programs, some as staff, some as participant. So I wanted to share a take on a very special one that just finished its 1st edition: CAMBRIA. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 3 weeks. 20 nerds. Hands-on technical upskilling. Participant selection: spot on. The attendance was diverse...

Jan 29•18

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CAMBRIA's 1st Edition: High-Intensity & hands-on AI Safety upskilling in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Jan 29•18

Andrés Cotton

CAMBRIA's 1st Edition: High-Intensity & hands-on AI Safety upskilling in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Andrés Cotton

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I've done a bunch of AI Safety programs, some as staff, some as participant. So I wanted to share a take on a very special one that just finished its 1st edition: CAMBRIA.

Cambridge, Massachusetts. 3 weeks. 20 nerds. Hands-on technical upskilling.

Participant selection: spot on. The attendance was diverse and also everyone was on the same page, which is hard to achieve. There were generous travel allowances for international participants, one guy flew from Australia, one girl from Vietnam and myself from Argentina. Most of the cohort was from different top schools in the US (MIT, Brown, Stanford, Harvard) and some San Francisco folks.

Knowledge level of participants before the program: there was a... (read 330 more words →)