• Intensive three-day workshops for participants to explore AI safety and biosecurity.

    Explore the foundational arguments around risks from advanced AI and biotechnology. Our workshops are for people who want to learn more about what they can do to have a large positive impact with their careers.

At our workshops

As breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and biotechnology have rapidly progressed, experts have increasingly spokenout on the risks.

Our events are designed for participants to evaluate these arguments. Over a weekend-long workshop, participants explore the case for improving safety measures for AI and biotechnology, and hear first-hand about the career journeys of professionals working in the fields.

Ultimately, our goal is to give you the information you need to work out where you stand on these issues themselves and how you might approach careers that try to tackle them.

Apply to a workshop

We host three-day residential workshops for people who are interested in exploring AI safety and biosecurity.

Travel, accommodation and meals will be provided.

Each workshop typically has 25-35 attendees.

Workshop Sample Schedule

View a more detailed sample schedule here

Arrival Day
2:00 PM Arrive between 2:00 and 3:00
3:30 PM Opening Session
5:20 PM Get situated
6:00 PM Lighting Shares
8:00 PM Dinner
8:00 PM Social
Day 1
8:30 AM Breakfast
9:30 PM Morning briefing
10:00 AM Approaches in biorisk
11:10 AM Biosecurity guest speaker n.1
12:10 PM Biosecurity guest speaker n.2
1:00 PM Lunch
2:00 PM Walk with 1-1s
3:40 PM Q&A with bio guest speakers
5:15 PM Career Planning
6:30 PM Lighting Shares
7:00 PM Dinner
8:00 PM Coat of Arms
Day 2
8:30 AM Breakfast
9:30 PM Morning briefing
10:00 AM AI x-risk: Risk Factors
11:10 AM AI x-risk: Timelines and Approaches
12:20 PM AI safety guest speaker n.1
1:00 PM Lunch
2:00 PM AI safety guest speaker n.2
2:50 PM Walk with 1-1s
4:40 PM Q&A with AI safety guest speakers
6:30 PM Lighting Shares
7:00 PM Dinner
8:00 PM Closing Session
8:30 PM What Motivates You?

Upcoming Workshops

FAQs

  • Anyone who is interested in learning more about AI safety or biosecurity! This includes undergraduate students, graduate students, and professionals.

    Anyone from anywhere in the world is welcome to apply.

  • The workshop is free! However, we charge a $100 deposit which you will get back after attending the workshop.

    For more info on travel support, refer to our Travel Support Policy.

  • All participants are expected to have some basic familiarity with AI safety or biosecurity, although we encourage you to apply no matter how much you already know.

    We think the workshop is beneficial for students who are new to these ideas as well as those who have been exploring them for a couple years.

    Our workshops have a few hours of pre-reading before the weekend, so that all come with a shared level of basic understanding.

    You can see our schedule or our advice for applying to get a better sense of what content the workshops cover.

  • See our upcoming events here.

  • Each workshop will strive to have a handful of guests who have experience in in AI safety and biosecurity.

    During a guest session, the guest speaker presents on their career journey so far, their current projects, and advice for navigating the field.

    Some past guest speakers have worked at: UK AISI, SecureBio, Coefficient Giving, Redwood Research, LawAI, Blueprint Biosecurity, METR, ARI, 80,000 Hours, GDM, UN Biological Weapons Convention, GovAI, ARC, OpenAI, Constellation, RAND, Kairos, AI Futures Project, MIT, ProEquip, MATS, and many others!

If you have further questions, you can contact us at contact@kairos-project.org

What our workshops are like

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