About us
Apart Research is an AI safety research organization focused on making advanced AI safe and beneficial. We run research sprints and hackathons that have engaged 6,000+ participants across 55 events in 200+ global locations, resulting in 22 peer-reviewed papers at top AI conferences.
We bring together engineers, researchers, and policy experts to build practical tools for AI safety and governance. Join us for hackathons, workshops, and local meetups.
Upcoming events
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Technical AI Governance Hackathon - Berkeley
Location not specified yetWe're hosting The Technical AI Governance Hackathon near BART Station in Berkeley, January 30 - February 1.
The Problem
The hardware that trains frontier AI systems can be tracked. Training runs leave compute signatures. Safety evaluations can generate cryptographic proofs. International verification mechanisms exist and work. But we lack the practical tools to implement them at scale.
The Event
One weekend to build verification systems, compliance infrastructure, and coordination tools that make international AI governance actually enforceable. Work alongside other builders, attend talks from AI safety researchers, and compete for prizes.
In-Person Schedule
Friday, Jan 30: 5pm - 10pm (kicks off with Peter Barnett's talk at 6pm PT)
Saturday, Jan 31: 10am - 8pm
Sunday, Feb 1: 10am - 8pm
Food provided Friday evening, Saturday, and Sunday.
Speaker Schedule
All talks streamed live to registered participants:
- Wednesday, Jan 28 at 10am PT - Charbel-Raphaël Segerie, Executive Director at CeSIA
- Thursday, Jan 29 at 10am PT - Henry Papadatos, Executive Director at SaferAI
- Friday, Jan 30 at 10am PT - Kristian Rönn, Cofounder of Lucid Computing (Keynote)
- Friday, Jan 30 at 6pm PT - Peter Barnett, MIRI Technical Governance Team (In-Person Berkeley)
Five Tracks
- Hardware Verification & Attestation
- Compliance Infrastructure & Privacy-Preserving Proofs
- Risk Thresholds & Compute Verification
- International Verification & Coordination
- Research Governance & Dual-Use Detection
Prizes & Opportunities
- $2,000 prize pool across all tracks
- Fast-track to interviews with Lucid Computing for Product Engineer, Hardware Security Engineer, Compiler & Kernel Engineer, and Network Security Engineer (San Francisco roles)
- Fast-track to MIRI Technical Governance Team Fellowship
- Fast-track to Apart Research Fellowship with continued development support
- $400 in compute credits per team
- Direct connections to technical governance researchers
Who Should Join
Anyone who can build and thinks the gap between governance policy and technical implementation is dangerous. Engineers who want to work on infrastructure that enables international cooperation. Researchers ready to prototype enforcement mechanisms. No governance background needed.
Hosted by
Apart Research in partnership with MIRI Technical Governance Team and Lucid Computing.
To join the Berkeley local site, Register Here
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