This post is an organizational update from Georgia Tech’s AI Safety Initiative (AISI) and roughly represents our collective view. In this post, we share lessons & takes from the 2024-25 academic year, describe what we’ve done, and detail our plans for the next academic year.

Introduction

Hey, we’re organizers of Georgia Tech’s AI Safety Initiative (AISI), thanks for dropping by! The purpose of this post is to document and share our activities with fellow student AI safety organizations. Feel free to skip to sections as you need. We welcome all constructive discussion! Put any further questions, feedback, or disagreements in the comments and one of us will certainly respond. A brief outline:

Overview and reflection of our activities during the 2024-25 academic year.
Lessons and strategic takes other AI safety student organizations may benefit from, informed by our activities in the past year.
Immediate plans, including thoughts on the role of student organizations in the current AI safety landscape.

This post is primarily authored by Yixiong (co-director) and Parv (collaborative initiatives lead). First and foremost, we’d like to give a HUGE shoutout to our team - Ayush, Stepan, Alec, Eyas, Andrew, Vishnesh, Tanush, Harshit, and Jaehun - for volunteering countless hours despite busy schedules. None of this would’ve been possible without y’all <3. We would also like to thank Open Philanthropy, our faculty advisors, and external collaborators for supporting our mission.

I. Overview and reflection of our activities

AISI saw significant expansion of our education, outreach, and research activities in the past year; here’s what we’ve been up to:

Intro to AI Safety Fellowship

This is our introductory offering - a technical fellowship distilled from BlueDot Impact’s course. See our syllabus here. In the past year, we received over 160 applications and hosted 16 cohorts of 6-8 students each. Cohorts met for ninety minutes every week, and after six weeks had the opportunity to apply for AISI’s research programs and support. This is an effective program every AIS student organization should have, though it’s high recall and low precision. We estimate >90% of our current organizers and engaged members are past fel...

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