Spring 2025 AI Safety Fellowship
Starting April 21st, 2025. Apply here.
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AI safety is the field of research focused on the question of: "How do we make AI robustly serve human values?"
Our Spring fellowship will cover topics on the cutting edge of AI safety research (mechanistic interpretability, RLHF, scalable oversight, oh my) roughly following this syllabus. We aim to arm you with the skills necessary to apply to a bevy of research/engineering internships. Our Spring fellowship lasts 6 weeks, and involves about 1 hour of independent reading and 1 hour of discussion each week. We'll meet Mondays 6-7 PM in Tech L168. CS/math background useful but not required.
The application deadline is Friday, April 18, at 11:59 PM CDT. Applying takes ~20 minutes; apply here.
Who can apply?
We aim to accept primarily undergraduate and graduate students at Northwestern, but working professionals are encouraged to apply.
What are the dates?
The course will run for six weeks, with the first meeting on Monday, April 21st, 2025. We won't meet during midterms week.
What will I learn during this course?
Most of our material is drawn from BlueDot's AI Safety Fundamentals. The course primarily focuses on preventing catastrophic risks arising from future AI systems. We focus on catastrophic risks because we think they are neglected relative to their scale.
When and where does each cohort meet?
We'll meet Mondays 6-7 PM in Tech L168.
How much experience with CS/math/machine learning do I need?
No background in any of these is required. Those with more relevant technical skills may find the readings easier going, but we think anybody dedicated and curious can get a lot out of this fellowship.
What if I already know all the material in the curriculum?
Please contact us at the bottom of this page to explore other ways of getting involved!
Who will be my facilitator?
Matthew and Anastasia, the club co-presidents, will facilitate discussion groups. Experienced facilitators are a real bottleneck from accepting more people and holding larger fellowships; if you're comfortable with the material in the syllabus linked above and interested in facilitating, please reach out to us at the bottom of this page!
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