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Events, training, fellowships, mixers, and CFPs across Applied Cognitive Oversight, instruments for epistemic access to model cognition, and the broader AI safety, alignment, and governance community. Refreshed weekly. Sorted by salience. What's ACO?

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ICML 2026

conference ★ 0.76 CFP closes Jun 6, 2026 ?
📅 Jul 6, 2026 – Jul 11, 2026 📍 Seoul, South Korea via ICML: Safety-related Workshops , ICML: Safety-related Workshops

International Conference on Machine Learning 2026 in Seoul. July 6 expo and tutorials, July 7-9 main conference, July 10-11 workshops. Major ML conference with multiple safety-related workshops including Mechanistic Interpretability, Pluralistic Alignment, and Technical AI Governance Research. Schedule still being finalized.

#alignment#interpretability#evals#ml-research#mechanistic-interpretability#governance#machine-learning#evaluation major-conference
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AI Risk Content Hackathon

hackathon ★ 0.68 Reg closes Jun 6, 2026 ?
📅 Jun 6, 2026 📍 London, UK via BlueDot Impact Events Calendar (Luma)

AI Risk Content Hackathon organized by BlueDot Impact in London. Focus on creating AI safety and risk communication content. Part of BlueDot's broader mission to build the workforce needed to safely navigate AGI.

#alignment#governance#evals content-creation
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NeurIPS 2026

conference ★ 0.63 CFP closes Jun 6, 2026 ?
📅 Dec 6, 2026 – Dec 13, 2026 📍 In-person via NeurIPS: Safety-related Workshops

Neural Information Processing Systems 2026. Major ML conference with multi-city format: Sydney December 6-12, Atlanta December 9-13, Paris December 9-13. Typically features multiple safety-related workshops. Workshop calls currently open for applications. Major venue for safety research presentations and networking.

#interpretability#evals#alignment#ml-research#safety-research#mechanistic-interpretability#machine-learning#evaluation#governance major-conferencemulti-location
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MATS Autumn 2026 Fellowship

fellowship ★ 0.94 Apps close Jun 7, 2026
📅 Sep 28, 2026 – Dec 4, 2026 📍 Berkeley / London, USA / UK · Hybrid via MATS: ML Alignment & Theory Scholars

10-week ML Alignment & Theory Scholars fellowship running autumn 2026. Main program September 28 to December 4, with optional 6-12 month extension phase available for accepted fellows. Applications open May 12 to June 7 with additional evaluation through late July and final offers in late July/early August.

#alignment#safety#interpretability
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UNIDIR Global Conference on AI, Security and Ethics 2026

conference ★ 0.70 Reg closes Jun 7, 2026

UNIDIR conference addressing how artificial intelligence is reshaping global security. United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research convenes experts on AI policy and international security. International AI policy and disarmament conferences in scope per safety community's broader governance interests. Preceded by Road to AISE26 webinar series (May 29 - June 15) and Inter-faith Dialogue on AI (June 12).

#governance#sociotechnical-threats#policy#sociotechnical-threat-surface
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Australian AI Safety Forum 2026

conference ★ 0.86 CFP closes Jun 15, 2026 ?
📅 Jul 7, 2026 – Jul 8, 2026 📍 Sydney, Australia via Australian AI Safety Forum

Interdisciplinary forum grounded in the International AI Safety Report, focusing on measurement, evaluation, and governance of AI systems. Brings together people from research, government, industry, and civil society. Features keynotes, panels, workshops, and structured discussions. Builds on momentum from Australia's establishment of an AI Safety Institute and the government's National AI Plan. Organized by Gradient Institute Ltd with Australian Government Department of Industry, Science and Resources sponsorship. Welcomes both technical and non-technical participants.

#evals#governance#evaluation#measurement-science#alignment#evaluations#policy#technical-safety#safety interdisciplinary
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Global South AI Safety Hackathon 2026

hackathon ★ 0.81 Reg closes Jun 19, 2026
📅 Jun 19, 2026 – Jun 21, 2026 📍 Hybrid via Apart Research

Global South AI Safety Hackathon organized by Apart Research with Schmidt Sciences sponsorship. Regional competition targeting participants from Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Focus on building AI safety tools, evaluations, and policy research. Part of a pipeline from hackathon to fellowship to placement opportunities. Both online and in-person participation available.

#alignment#safety#evaluation#governance#evals
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Anthropic Fellows Program July 2026

fellowship ★ 0.91 Apps close Jun 30, 2026 ?
📅 Jul 20, 2026 – Nov 20, 2026 📍 In-person via Anthropic Alignment Blog

Four-month full-time paid AI safety research fellowship providing funding, compute (~$15k/month), and direct mentorship from Anthropic researchers to work on real safety and security projects. Focus areas include scalable oversight, adversarial robustness, and other AI safety topics. Over 40% of fellows from first cohort joined Anthropic full-time.

#alignment#technical-safety#interpretability#evals#control#adversarial-robustness#scaling-infrastructure
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Cambridge ERA:AI Fellowship 2026

fellowship ★ 0.75 Apps close Jun 30, 2026 ?
📅 Jul 6, 2026 – Sep 11, 2026 📍 Cambridge, United Kingdom via ERA Cambridge: Existential Risk Alliance Fellowship

10-week Cambridge-based fellowship on existential AI risk. Welcomes talented individuals from around the world at any career stage motivated to work on AI safety and governance research. Part of the Existential Risk Alliance programme.

#alignment#governance#technical-safety#safety
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ACL 2026 Workshop on Evaluating AI in Practice

workshop ★ 0.72 Reg closes Jul 2, 2026 ?
📅 Jul 4, 2026 📍 San Diego, USA via EvalEval Coalition

EvalEval Coalition workshop at ACL 2026 focused on AI evaluation practices. Afternoon workshop July 4 plus evening social event July 3. Accepts research papers and position papers at multiple lengths (6-8 pages full, up to 4 pages short, up to 2 pages tiny). Submissions may include unpublished work and previously published papers. Authors commit to serving as reviewers.

#evals#safety-research#measurement#evaluation-methodology#evaluation#alignment ACL-workshoptwo-day
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CAMBRIA Summer 2026: July Cohort

fellowship ★ 0.92 Apps close Jul 5, 2026 ?
📅 Jul 6, 2026 – Jul 24, 2026 📍 New York, USA via CAMBRIA - Cambridge Bootcamp for Research in Interpretability and Alignment

3-week ML upskilling bootcamp for AI safety focusing on interpretability and RL, based on ARENA curriculum. Provides housing and meals, 24/7 office access, dedicated teaching assistants, and travel support. Requires familiarity with Python and comfort with multivariable calculus and linear algebra. Run by Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative in Manhattan.

#interpretability#alignment
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Seoul Alignment Workshop 2026

workshop ★ 0.82 Reg closes Jul 5, 2026 ?

Workshop bringing together global leaders in academia and industry to explore risk mitigation strategies for artificial general intelligence. Organized by FAR.AI. Co-located with ICML 2026 in Seoul.

#alignment#governance#control#interpretability#technical-safety#agi-risk#evals#agi-safety
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Secure & Sovereign AI Workshop 2026

workshop ★ 0.79 Reg closes Jul 18, 2026 ?
📅 Jul 18, 2026 – Jul 19, 2026 📍 Berlin, Germany via Foresight Institute , Foresight Institute

Foresight Institute workshop on secure and sovereign AI systems. Focus on AI security, safety, and governance from both technical and policy perspectives. Two-day workshop in Berlin.

#governance#evals#alignment#safety-research#security#control#technical-safety#ai-security#adversarial-robustness#scaling-infrastructure#safety technicalBerlin
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ARC White-Box Estimation Challenge 2026

hackathon ★ 0.96 Reg closes Jul 31, 2026

ARC's White-Box Estimation Challenge in partnership with AIcrowd, featuring a competition to improve estimation algorithms for random MLPs. $100,000 prize pool across best performance and best algorithmic contribution categories. Contestants design algorithms to estimate expected outputs from network weights. Encourages use of LLMs to enhance submissions. Results to be presented at NeurIPS 2026 workshop (December 11-12). Evaluation uses analytical FLOP budget to ensure hardware neutrality.

#interpretability#evals#control
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Iliad August Intensive 2026

fellowship ★ 0.88 Apps close Aug 1, 2026 ?
📅 Aug 10, 2026 – Aug 28, 2026 📍 Berkeley, USA via LessWrong Events

3-week intensive program in applied mathematics for AI alignment by Iliad. Based in Berkeley at Lighthaven. Provides $5,000 support. Selection based on estimated mathematical strength. Part of Iliad's series of intensive and fellowship programs.

#alignment#formal-foundations
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EAGx Berkeley 2026

conference ★ 0.84 Apps close Aug 7, 2026 ?
📅 Aug 21, 2026 – Aug 23, 2026 📍 Berkeley, USA via EA Global Events

EAGx conference in Berkeley. Part of the EA Global Extended series with strong AI safety focus given the Berkeley location and community. In scope for social and community networking opportunities with heavy safety researcher attendance expected.

#alignment#governance
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CAMBRIA Summer 2026: August Cohort

fellowship ★ 0.89 Apps close Aug 9, 2026 ?
📅 Aug 10, 2026 – Aug 28, 2026 📍 Cambridge, USA via CAMBRIA - Cambridge Bootcamp for Research in Interpretability and Alignment

3-week ML upskilling bootcamp for AI safety focusing on interpretability and RL, based on ARENA curriculum. Provides housing and meals, 24/7 office access in Harvard Square, dedicated teaching assistants, and travel support. Requires familiarity with Python and comfort with multivariable calculus and linear algebra. Run by Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative.

#interpretability#alignment
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Iliad Fall Fellowship 2026

fellowship ★ 0.85 Apps close Sep 1, 2026 ?
📅 Sep 7, 2026 – Dec 4, 2026 📍 London, UK via LessWrong Events

3-month mentored research fellowship in applied mathematics for AI alignment by Iliad. Based in London at LISA. Provides $6,000/month stipend. Selection based on estimated mathematical strength.

#alignment#formal-foundations
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Iliad September Intensive 2026

fellowship ★ 0.85 Apps close Sep 1, 2026 ?
📅 Sep 7, 2026 – Oct 2, 2026 📍 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
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Iliad October Intensive 2026

fellowship ★ 0.83 Apps close Oct 1, 2026 ?
📅 Oct 5, 2026 – Oct 30, 2026 📍 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
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EA Global: New York City 2026

conference ★ 0.76 Apps close Oct 4, 2026
📅 Oct 16, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026 📍 New York, USA via EA Global Events

EA Global conference in New York City. Heavy AI safety attendance and programming. Part of the EA Global series organized by Centre for Effective Altruism. In scope for social and community event reasons with substantial safety-focused sessions and networking opportunities.

#alignment#safety#governance
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Iliad November Intensive 2026

fellowship ★ 0.80 Apps close Nov 1, 2026 ?
📅 Nov 2, 2026 – Nov 27, 2026 📍 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
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GovAI DC Summer Fellowship 2026

fellowship ★ 0.96 Apps closed Mar 1, 2026 ?
📅 Jun 8, 2026 – Aug 28, 2026 📍 Washington DC, USA via GovAI - Centre for the Governance of AI

Three-month bipartisan fellowship designed to launch or accelerate impactful careers in American AI governance and policy. Participants deepen understanding of the field, connect with network of experts, and build skills and professional profile. $21,000 stipend. Alumni have secured positions at leading AI companies (DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic).

#governance#policy fellowshippolicygovernanceDC
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GovAI Summer Fellowship 2026 - Research Track

fellowship ★ 0.96 Apps closed Jan 4, 2026 ?
📅 Jun 8, 2026 – Aug 28, 2026 📍 London, UK via GovAI - Centre for the Governance of AI

Three-month fellowship where fellows conduct independent research on AI governance topic of their choice with mentorship from leading experts. £12,000 stipend. GovAI was founded to help decision-makers navigate the transition to advanced AI through rigorous research and talent fostering. Alumni have secured positions at DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic.

#governance#policy fellowshipresearchgovernanceLondon
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CBAI Summer Research Fellowship 2026

fellowship ★ 0.95 Apps closed Apr 12, 2026 ?

Nine-week AI safety research fellowship run by Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative. Accepts 30 fellows (undergraduate, Master's, PhD students, postdocs, and recent graduates). Includes $10,000 stipend, accommodation in Harvard dorms, meals, workspace access, and up to $10,000 in compute credits. Applications reviewed on rolling basis through four-stage process. International students on OPT/CPT eligible but visa sponsorship not available.

#alignment#interpretability#governance#evals#biosecurity#safety-research fellowshipresearchCambridgeHarvardstipendhousingcompute-credits
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BlueDot Technical AI Safety Project Sprint May 2026

workshop ★ 0.92 Apps closed May 10, 2026
📅 May 18, 2026 – Jun 21, 2026 📍 Virtual via BlueDot Impact

5-week project-based course for engineers and early researchers to work with an AI safety expert on a contribution to AI safety research or engineering. Includes mentorship, regular check-ins, and a published write-up. Covers alignment, mechanistic interpretability, evaluations, red-teaming, AI control, and scalable oversight.

#alignment#interpretability#evals
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MATS Summer 2026 Fellowship

fellowship ★ 0.88 Apps closed Jan 18, 2026
📅 Jun 1, 2026 – Aug 31, 2026 📍 Berkeley / London, USA / UK · Hybrid via MATS: ML Alignment & Theory Scholars , MATS: ML Alignment & Theory Scholars

10-week AI safety research fellowship with optional 6-12 month extension in London. $1250 weekly stipend plus $2k weekly compute resources. Five research tracks: Technical Governance, Empirical, Policy & Strategy, Theory, and Compute Infrastructure. Applications closed but EOI still being collected. Welcomes diverse backgrounds with strong motivation to contribute to AI safety.

#alignment#mechanistic-interpretability#governance#interpretability#evals
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Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop @ ICML 2026

workshop ★ 0.87 CFP closed May 31, 2026 ?
📅 Jul 10, 2026 📍 Seoul, South Korea via Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop at ICML

Third iteration of Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop at ICML. Focus on methods for analyzing neural network internals to better understand how models make decisions. Call for Papers closed with acceptance notifications by June 12 (AOE). Follows previous editions at ICML 2024 and NeurIPS 2025.

#interpretability#alignment
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Pluralistic Alignment @ ICML 2026

workshop ★ 0.85 CFP closed May 8, 2026 ?
📅 Jul 11, 2026 📍 Seoul, South Korea via Pluralistic Alignment Workshop at ICML

Workshop on Pluralistic AI: Aligning with the Diversity of Human Values at ICML 2026. Submissions should be anonymized papers 4 to 8 pages following ICML 2026 template through OpenReview. Acceptance notifications on May 22, 2026.

#alignment#governance#pluralistic-alignment#pluralistic-values#measurement-science ICML-workshopinterdisciplinary
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ILIAD 2026 - Theoretical AI Alignment Conference

conference ★ 0.84 Apps closed Jun 1, 2026
📅 Aug 3, 2026 – Aug 7, 2026 📍 Berkeley, USA via ILIAD - Theoretical AI Alignment Conference

5-day multi-track theoretical AI alignment conference with unconference structure allowing participants to propose sessions. Free to attend with limited needs-based funding for travel and accommodation. Emphasizes mathematical approaches including Singular Learning Theory, Agent Foundations, Causal Incentives, Computational Mechanics, and Scalable Oversight. Organized by Iliad, umbrella organization for applied mathematics research in alignment.

#formal-foundations#alignment#control
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ICML 2026 Workshop on Mechanistic Interpretability

workshop ★ 0.84 CFP closed May 8, 2026

Workshop bringing together diverse perspectives from the community to discuss recent advances in mechanistic interpretability, build common understanding and chart future directions. Addresses developing principled methods to analyze and understand model internals (weights and activations) to gain insight into behavior and underlying computation. Received 2.6x submissions from previous year.

#interpretability#alignment#circuit-tracing#sparse-autoencoders#mechanistic-interpretability#instrument-science#adversarial-robustness ICMLworkshopmechanistic-interpretabilityICML-workshopthird-iteration
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Anthropic Fellows Program May 2026

fellowship ★ 0.82 Apps closed Apr 15, 2026 ?
📅 May 4, 2026 – Sep 4, 2026 📍 In-person via Anthropic Alignment Blog

Four-month full-time paid AI safety research fellowship providing funding, compute (~$15k/month), and direct mentorship from Anthropic researchers to work on real safety and security projects. Focus areas include scalable oversight, adversarial robustness, and other AI safety topics. Over 40% of fellows from first cohort joined Anthropic full-time.

#alignment#technical-safety#interpretability#control#adversarial-robustness#scaling-infrastructure
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OpenAI Safety Fellowship 2026

fellowship ★ 0.81 Apps closed May 3, 2026
📅 Sep 14, 2026 – Feb 5, 2027 📍 Berkeley, United States · Hybrid via OpenAI Safety Fellowship

Six-month research fellowship partnering with Constellation. Fellows work on safety and alignment topics with workspace available in Berkeley at Constellation or remotely. High-trust source for AI safety research fellowships. Applications open now with notifications by July 25.

#alignment#technical-safety#evals#control#safety#evaluation#interpretability
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Pluralistic Alignment Workshop @ ICML 2026

workshop ★ 0.80 CFP closed May 8, 2026
📅 Jul 11, 2026 📍 Seoul, South Korea via Pluralistic Alignment Workshop at ICML

Annual workshop at ICML on pluralistic AI alignment. Focus on integrating diverse perspectives into AI alignment frameworks. 4-8 pages of content plus unlimited references and appendices. Papers accepted as non-archival publications. Double-blind review with at least one author serving as reviewer. Various paper types: works in progress, position papers, policy papers, academic papers.

#alignment#governance
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MARS V 2026: Stage 1 General Application

fellowship ★ 0.79 Apps closed May 3, 2026 ?
📅 Jul 13, 2026 – Oct 31, 2026 📍 Cambridge, United Kingdom · Hybrid via MARS - Mentorship for Alignment Researchers at CAISH

MARS (Mentorship for Alignment Researchers at CAISH) is a part-time, hybrid programme pairing teams of 2-4 participants with experienced mentors. Stage 1 is the general participant track. Features 8-15+ hours weekly on research projects, weekly check-ins with teammates and mentors, one-week in-person sprint (July 13-19 or July 20-26) followed by remote collaboration through October. Provides $2,000+ compute budget, Claude Max access for technical streams, travel/accommodation/meals during in-person week. Applications for MARS V are closed.

#alignment#technical-safety#mentorship#control#interpretability#evals#governance
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MARS V 2026

fellowship ★ 0.77 Apps closed May 10, 2026 ?
📅 Jul 13, 2026 – Oct 31, 2026 📍 Cambridge, United Kingdom · Hybrid via MARS - Mentorship for Alignment Researchers at CAISH

Mentorship for Alignment Research Students operated by Cambridge AI Safety Hub. Part-time hybrid programme with in-person kick-off week (July 13-19 or 20-26), remote phase August-September, and final output October 2026. Teams of 2-4 participants with experienced mentor. Provides $2k+ compute budget, Claude Max access, research management support, travel funding, and accommodation. 8-15+ hours per week commitment. Expected output: published research.

#alignment#interpretability#evals
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Pivotal Research Fellowship June 2026

fellowship ★ 0.76 Apps closed May 3, 2026
📅 Jun 29, 2026 – Aug 28, 2026 📍 London, UK via Pivotal Research Fellowship

9-week AI safety research fellowship based in London at LISA. Open to anyone 18+ committed to AI safety regardless of background. Provides £6,000-£8,000 stipend (£8,000 for Senior Fellows), travel coverage, £2,000 housing assistance for non-London residents, meals and compute resources. Weekly 1-on-1 mentorship, in-person workspace with inclusive meals. Up to 6-month extensions available (70-90% of recent cohorts received them). Past fellows joined Anthropic, Google DeepMind, UK AISI.

#alignment#interpretability
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Foresight Vision Weekend UK 2026

conference ★ 0.75 Reg closed Jun 5, 2026 ?
📅 Jun 5, 2026 – Jun 7, 2026 📍 London, United Kingdom via Foresight Institute

Flagship conference where leading scientists, entrepreneurs, funders, and policymakers convene to explore frontier technology and plan for beneficial futures. Includes AI safety track as part of broader focus on transformative technology. 40-year-old organization focused on beneficial technology development.

#governance#frontier-science#technical-safety#alignment#safety
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📅 Jul 10, 2026 📍 Seoul, South Korea via ICML: Safety-related Workshops

Second Workshop on Technical AI Governance Research at ICML 2026, focusing on technical approaches to AI governance, policy, and regulation. Part of the main conference workshop track.

#governance#policy ICMLworkshopgovernancetechnical-governance
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📅 Jul 10, 2026 📍 Seoul, South Korea via ICML: Safety-related Workshops

Workshop at ICML 2026 focused on identifying, diagnosing, and fixing failure modes in agentic AI systems. Covers reproducible triggers for failures, diagnostic tracing methods, and verified repair approaches. Highly relevant to AI safety and robustness.

#evals#alignment ICMLworkshopfailure-modesagentsdiagnostics
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  "time_proximity": 0.7383647798742139,
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📅 Jul 11, 2026 📍 Seoul, South Korea via ICML: Safety-related Workshops

Second Workshop on Agents in the Wild focusing on safety and security of AI agents deployed in real-world environments. Addresses challenges in ensuring safe and secure operation of autonomous agents. Part of ICML 2026 workshop track.

#alignment#evals ICMLworkshopagentssafetysecurity
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Pivotal Research Fellowship 2026 Q3

fellowship ★ 0.72 Apps closed May 3, 2026 ?
📅 Jun 29, 2026 – Aug 28, 2026 📍 London, United Kingdom via Pivotal Research Fellowship

AI safety research fellowship based in London. Initial 9-week in-person component at LISA (June 29 to August 28) with up to 6 months continued financial support available through extensions. 70-90% of fellows received extensions in recent cohorts. Quarterly cohorts.

#alignment#governance#technical-safety#mechanistic-interpretability#interpretability#safety
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MARS V 2026: Stage 2 Mentor Selection

fellowship ★ 0.72 Apps closed May 10, 2026 ?
📅 Jul 13, 2026 – Oct 31, 2026 📍 Cambridge, United Kingdom · Hybrid via MARS - Mentorship for Alignment Researchers at CAISH

Stage 2 of MARS V selection process, for invited candidates only. Part-time, hybrid research programme matching exceptional students and early-career researchers with experienced mentors. Includes $2k+ compute budget, Claude Max, accommodation, meals, and travel funding.

#alignment#technical-safety#mentorship#control#interpretability#evals#governance
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Astra Fellowship Fall 2026

fellowship ★ 0.71
📅 Sep 14, 2026 – Feb 5, 2027 📍 Berkeley, United States via Constellation Astra Fellowship

Fully funded, in-person program pairing senior advisors with emerging talent on 5-month technical, governance, strategy, and field-building projects. $8,400 monthly stipend, ~$15K/month research budget for empirical fellows (compute), workspace at Berkeley research center, weekly mentorship from experts, visa support for international applicants. Applications for Fall 2026 cohort closed May 3rd. Strong placement rates at safety orgs.

#alignment#governance#technical-safety
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Vision Weekend UK 2026 - AI Safety Track

conference ★ 0.70 Reg closed Jun 5, 2026 ?
📅 Jun 5, 2026 – Jun 7, 2026 📍 London, UK via Foresight Institute , Foresight Institute

Foresight Institute Vision Weekend with frontier science and technology tracks including AI safety. 40-year-old organization focused on transformative technology. Three-day event in London featuring AI safety programming alongside other frontier tech tracks.

#alignment#governance frontier-sciencemulti-track
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ARENA 8.0

fellowship ★ 0.70 Apps closed May 24, 2026 ?
📅 May 25, 2026 – Jun 26, 2026 📍 London, United Kingdom via ARENA: Alignment Research Engineering Accelerator , ARENA: Alignment Research Engineering Accelerator

ARENA 8.0 alignment research engineering accelerator bootcamp in London. Intensive ML bootcamp with focus on AI safety. Three-stage application process including coding test and interview. Program covers all participant costs including travel, visas, accommodation, and meals to ensure finances do not present a barrier. Requires Python proficiency and mathematical knowledge in linear algebra, calculus, and probability.

#alignment#interpretability#technical-safety#mechanistic-interpretability#evals
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📅 May 5, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026 📍 Virtual via BlueDot Impact Events Calendar (Luma)

Weekly AI safety evaluations paper reading club hosted by BlueDot Impact. Meets every Tuesday at 4:00 PM UTC to discuss evaluation methodologies, safety benchmarks, and measurement frameworks. Open to all interested in AI safety evals research.

#evals#alignment weeklypaper-discussion
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Agentic AI Summit 2026

conference ★ 0.69

Summit bringing together academic leaders, entrepreneurs, AI experts, venture capitalists, and policymakers to discuss the future of AI and Agentic AI. Call for Papers and Startup Spotlight applications open. In-person and livestream available.

#alignment#evals#governance
Salience signals
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CAIS AI and Society Fellowship 2026

fellowship ★ 0.67 Apps closed Mar 24, 2026
📅 Jun 1, 2026 – Aug 21, 2026 📍 San Francisco, USA via Center for AI Safety , Center for AI Safety , Center for AI Safety

Three-month research fellowship investigating societal impacts of advanced AI and institutions and policies for response. Targets scholars in economics, law, international relations, and adjacent disciplines. $25,000 stipend plus covered travel and daily meals. Requires professorship, PhD/JD degree, or PhD/JD-equivalent research experience. Fellows produce substantive interim results such as blog posts, draft papers, or empirical findings. Organized by Center for AI Safety.

#governance#policy#alignment#safety fellowshipgovernancepolicyresearch
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📅 Jun 5, 2026 – Jun 7, 2026 📍 London, United Kingdom via Foresight Institute

Foresight Institute flagship event gathering leading scientists, entrepreneurs, funders, and policymakers to explore the frontiers of science and technology. Multiple tracks including AI safety topics.

#frontier-science#ai-safety
Salience signals
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  "is_deadline_open": 0,
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CCN 2026 - Cognitive Computational Neuroscience

conference ★ 0.63 CFP closed Apr 2, 2026 ?
📅 Aug 3, 2026 – Aug 6, 2026 📍 New York, USA via Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN)

9th annual Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference. Cross-disciplinary conference on decision making, learning, and cognition. Increasingly hosts LLM cognitive science crossover work. Dual-track submission system with 8-page competitive papers published in CCN Proceedings with DOI and 2-page posters. Features community events, Generative Adversarial Collaborations, keynotes, and tutorials. Relevant for ACO practitioners working on predictive coding, metacognition, and signal-detection-theory measurement applicable to LLMs.

#formal-foundations#instrument-science#measurement-science#interpretability
Salience signals
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  "time_proximity": 0.8138364779874214,
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📅 Jun 12, 2026 📍 Geneva, Switzerland via UNIDIR - United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research

Bringing together multiple faith perspectives on AI governance and security implications, exploring ethical dimensions of advanced AI through inter-religious dialogue.

#governance#sociotechnical-threat-surface
Salience signals
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  "time_proximity": 0.969811320754717,
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  "is_deadline_open": 0,
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MAIA AI Safety Fundamentals Summer 2026

reading-group ★ 0.58 Apps closed May 22, 2026 ?
📅 May 22, 2026 – Jul 17, 2026 📍 Virtual via MAIA - MIT AI Alignment

MAIA's flagship 8-week reading group meeting 2 hours weekly. Explores why AI safety matters and what's being done about it, covering AI trajectory, misalignment, technical safety, policy, and career paths. Virtual summer session with applications due by May 22nd. Facilitated by MAIA staff with small group format. No prerequisite knowledge required.

#alignment#governance#technical-safety#safety
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29th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Topics comprise empirical, theoretical and philosophical investigations on the neural correlates of consciousness and subjective experience. Accepts submissions from Psychology, Medicine, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Philosophy, Biology and Mathematics. Features posters, workshops and tutorials. Relevant for ACO practitioners working on consciousness studies and measurement science applicable to interpretability work.

#interpretability#measurement-science
Salience signals
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📅 Jun 15, 2026 – Jun 27, 2026 📍 New York, USA via Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS) - Columbia

Two-week intensive summer school at Columbia University covering machine learning topics including mechanistic interpretability, alignment/safety, RAG & agents, and LLM systems. Approximately 200 PhD students participate alongside faculty and industry speakers. In-scope due to dedicated alignment and mechanistic interpretability tracks.

#interpretability#alignment
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