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Conferences, workshops, fellowships, and training programmes with currently-open submission or sign-up deadlines: calls for papers, fellowship applications, registration, early-bird pricing. Sorted by deadline, soonest first.

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EAGxOxford 2026

conference โ˜… 0.79 Apps close Sep 13, 2026
๐Ÿ“… Sep 25, 2026 โ€“ Sep 27, 2026 ๐Ÿ“ Oxford, UK via EA Global Events

EAGx conference in Oxford, part of Effective Altruism Global conference series. Community event with AI safety focus and programming.

#governance#alignment#community#safety

ERA Cambridge Winter Fellowship 2027

fellowship โ˜… 0.72 Apps close Sep 13, 2026
๐Ÿ“… Jan 18, 2027 โ€“ Mar 26, 2027 ๐Ÿ“ Cambridge, UK via ERA Cambridge: Existential Risk Alliance Fellowship

ERA:AI Fellowship accelerating talent and advancing research to understand and mitigate risks from increasingly capable AI systems. Fellowship alumni work at UK AI Security Institute, European AI Office, NIST, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Cambridge, CAIS, MIRI, and FAR AI.

#alignment#governance#x-risk#safety

Algoverse AI Research Program Fall 2026

fellowship โ˜… 0.78 Apps close Sep 15, 2026 ?
๐Ÿ“… Sep 20, 2026 โ€“ Dec 12, 2026 ๐Ÿ“ Virtual via Algoverse AI Research

12-week AI safety research fellowship funded by Open Philanthropy (Coefficient Giving). Two tracks: Fundamental AI Research (model development, interpretability, agents, alignment, evals) and Applied AI Research (domain applications). Mentorship from researchers at Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, Stanford, and Berkeley. Recent cohorts achieved 68-73% conference acceptance rates at NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, and ACL workshops.

#alignment#interpretability#evals#research-practice

AI Safety Camp Research Incubator 2026

fellowship โ˜… 0.73 Apps close Sep 15, 2026 ?
๐Ÿ“… Aug 15, 2026 โ€“ Aug 30, 2026 ๐Ÿ“ Virtual via AI Safety Camp (AISC)

16-day virtual incubator for AI safety researchers to develop clearer articulation of research questions and directions. Structure includes three weekend sessions with lightning talks, one-on-ones, and feedback cycles. Participants work toward either a well-scoped research direction for potential pursuit at next AI Safety Camp or refined set of research questions. Focus on honest inquiry and examining assumptions in AI safety discourse. At least 10 hours per week commitment.

#alignment#research-methods#research-methodology#control#governance#evals#research-practice incubatorresearch-direction

EAGxIndia 2026

conference โ˜… 0.73 Apps close Sep 19, 2026
๐Ÿ“… Sep 19, 2026 โ€“ Sep 20, 2026 ๐Ÿ“ New Delhi, India via EA Global Events

EAGx conference in India, part of Effective Altruism Global conference series. Community event with AI safety focus and programming.

#governance#alignment#community#safety

ARC White-Box Estimation Challenge 2026

other โ˜… 0.60 Apps close Sep 19, 2026

Contest to improve estimation algorithms for random MLPs. Partnership between ARC (Alignment Research Center) and AIcrowd. Warm-up round began in early June 2026. Focuses on advancing theoretical alignment research through algorithmic improvements.

#interpretability#evals#control#alignment#research-practice challengecompetition

NeurIPS 2026

conference โ˜… 0.65 CFP closes Sep 24, 2026 ?
๐Ÿ“… Dec 6, 2026 โ€“ Dec 12, 2026 ๐Ÿ“ Sydney, Australia ยท Hybrid via NeurIPS: Safety-related Workshops

Neural Information Processing Systems conference. Multi-site event with main conference in Sydney (Dec 6-12), satellite sites in Atlanta (Dec 9-13) and Paris (Dec 9-13). Emphasizes ethical standards through Ethics Review Chair and Scientific Integrity Chair. Safety-related workshops tracked separately. General Chairs: Hsuan-Tien Lin (National Taiwan University) and Razvan Pascanu (Google DeepMind, Mila).

#alignment#interpretability#evals#ml-safety#machine-learning#ml#research-practice conference

EA Global: New York City 2026

conference โ˜… 0.86 Apps close Sep 27, 2026
๐Ÿ“… Oct 16, 2026 โ€“ Oct 18, 2026 ๐Ÿ“ New York City, USA via EA Global Events

EA Global conference series organized by Centre for Effective Altruism. Heavy AI safety attendance and programming. In scope for social/community event reasons and AI safety focus.

#governance#alignment#policy#community#safety

Alignment Journal General Submissions Open

cfp โ˜… 0.84 CFP closes Oct 1, 2026 ?
๐Ÿ“… Oct 1, 2026 ๐Ÿ“ Virtual via Alignment Forum Events

The Alignment Journal opens general submissions for peer-reviewed AI alignment research. This new journal provides a venue for rigorous alignment research across theoretical and empirical work. Researchers can create accounts and submit manuscripts for review starting in October 2026.

#alignment

Iliad October Intensive 2026

fellowship โ˜… 0.83 Apps close Oct 1, 2026 ?
๐Ÿ“… Oct 5, 2026 โ€“ Oct 30, 2026 ๐Ÿ“ Berkeley, USA via LessWrong Events

4-week intensive program in applied mathematics for AI alignment by Iliad. Based in Berkeley. Provides $5,000 support. Selection based on estimated mathematical strength.

#alignment#formal-foundations

AI Collusion Research Sprint 2026

hackathon โ˜… 0.81 Reg closes Oct 23, 2026
๐Ÿ“… Oct 23, 2026 โ€“ Oct 25, 2026 ๐Ÿ“ Hybrid via Apart Research

Three-day research sprint focused on AI collusion research. Part of Apart Research's monthly sprint series with 6,000+ participants across 200+ global locations.

#multi-agent#evals#safety

Warsaw AI Safety Day 2026

conference โ˜… 0.87 Reg closes Oct 24, 2026 ?
๐Ÿ“… Oct 24, 2026 ๐Ÿ“ Warsaw, Poland via BlueDot Impact Events Calendar (Luma)

One-day AI safety conference in Warsaw organized by AI Safety Poland. Community event for Polish AI safety researchers and practitioners.

#safety#community

EAGxBerlin 2026

conference โ˜… 0.77 Reg closes Oct 25, 2026 ?
๐Ÿ“… Nov 13, 2026 โ€“ Nov 15, 2026 ๐Ÿ“ Berlin, Germany via EA Global Events

EAGx conference in Berlin, part of Effective Altruism Global conference series. Community event with AI safety focus and programming.

#governance#alignment#safety#community

Corrigibility Research Fund 2026

cfp โ˜… 0.99 Apps close Oct 31, 2026
๐Ÿ“… Aug 23, 2026 ๐Ÿ“ Virtual via Alignment Forum Events

Grant fund awarding at least $200,000 in grants and prizes for corrigibility research in 2026. Typical awards range from $5,000-$35,000. Two rounds: Round 1 deadline August 23, Round 2 deadline October 31. Prize awards of $40,000 by end of September and at least $60,000 mid-December (no application required for prizes). Research spanning pure theory (formal models, decision-theoretic analysis) to empirical work (training experiments, evaluations) qualifies. Work must be legible to frontier AI labs and avoid accelerating capabilities development.

#alignment#control

Iliad November Intensive 2026

fellowship โ˜… 0.80 Apps close Nov 1, 2026 ?
๐Ÿ“… Nov 2, 2026 โ€“ Nov 27, 2026 ๐Ÿ“ London, UK via LessWrong Events

4-week intensive program in applied mathematics for AI alignment by Iliad. Based in London at LISA. Provides $5,000 support. Selection based on estimated mathematical strength.

#alignment#formal-foundations

Vision Weekend USA 2026

conference โ˜… 0.79 Reg closes Nov 5, 2026 ?
๐Ÿ“… Nov 13, 2026 โ€“ Nov 15, 2026 ๐Ÿ“ San Francisco, USA via Foresight Institute

Foresight's flagship conference gathering leading scientists, entrepreneurs, funders, and policymakers to explore the frontiers of science and technology. Includes AI safety track and secure AI discussions.

#safety#alignment#governance#research-practice

Foresight Vision Weekend USA 2026

conference โ˜… 0.64 Reg closes Nov 13, 2026
๐Ÿ“… Nov 13, 2026 โ€“ Nov 15, 2026 ๐Ÿ“ San Francisco, USA via Foresight Institute

Flagship event gathering leading scientists, entrepreneurs, funders, and policymakers to explore the frontiers of science and technology. 40-year-old organization focused on transformative technology including AI safety tracks.

#alignment#governance

EAGxAustralasia 2026

conference โ˜… 0.76 Reg closes Nov 15, 2026 ?
๐Ÿ“… Nov 27, 2026 โ€“ Nov 29, 2026 ๐Ÿ“ Melbourne, Australia via EA Global Events

EAGx conference in Melbourne, part of Effective Altruism Global conference series. Community event with AI safety focus and programming.

#governance#alignment#safety#community