@SPARexec

We're a part-time, virtual research program that gives students and early career professionals an opportunity to work with professional AI safety researchers.

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@SPARexec
Aug 7
We're excited to announce that applications are now open for the Fall round of SPAR! 🧵 Join us for 3 months (September - December) in a remote program to work on impactful research projects with expert mentors in AI safety, AI policy, AI security, and Biosecurity.
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Kairos is an incredible team and I feel proud to play a part. If any of our roles interest you, you should apply! Happy to chat about the org as well, DMs open :)
Agus 🔸
@austinc3301
Sep 3
I'm very excited to announce that Kairos just raised $50M from @coeff_giving to build talent infrastructure for AI safety. We're using it to ambitiously grow our team and portfolio of projects, and we're now hiring for 10 open roles. 🧵
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Rhys
@RhysLindmark
Sep 3
Let there be more human capital! (aka let the next HF incident be evaled by more than 3 people!)
Agus 🔸
@austinc3301
Sep 3
I'm very excited to announce that Kairos just raised $50M from @coeff_giving to build talent infrastructure for AI safety. We're using it to ambitiously grow our team and portfolio of projects, and we're now hiring for 10 open roles. 🧵
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I wouldn't have fully pivoted into AI safety a year ago without Kairos and their amazing programs. So excited!
Agus 🔸
@austinc3301
Sep 3
I'm very excited to announce that Kairos just raised $50M from @coeff_giving to build talent infrastructure for AI safety. We're using it to ambitiously grow our team and portfolio of projects, and we're now hiring for 10 open roles. 🧵
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Replying to @austinc3301 @fdosmither @coeff_giving @KairosAIS
Congrats!!! also, great rebranding and landing page
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I'm very excited to announce that Kairos just raised $50M from @coeff_giving to build talent infrastructure for AI safety. We're using it to ambitiously grow our team and portfolio of projects, and we're now hiring for 10 open roles. 🧵
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Kairos@KairosAIS
Sep 2
We're very excited to announce that Kairos has raised $50M from @coeff_giving for building talent infrastructure for AI safety. We're now hiring for 10 roles in our team! forum.effectivealtruism.org/…

Kairos has raised $50M to build talent infrastructure for AI safety (and we're hiring!)

TL;DR: Kairos has raised $50 million from Coefficient Giving for two years of funding, one of the largest commitments they’ve made towards AI safety…

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Apply today!
SPAR
@SPARexec
Aug 18
📣Today is the last day left to apply for this round of SPAR! Apply by August 18 to join our largest round yet — 200+ projects with mentors from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, RAND, AI Security Institute, Apollo Research, SecureBio, Machine Intelligence Research Institute, and more! Work on a part-time AI safety, AI policy, AI security, or biosecurity project. Open to students & professionals, prior research experience not required for all projects. 📝 Apply here: forms.sparai.org/spar/mentee… 📷 Browse open projects: tinyurl.com/sparf26projects2

SPAR Mentee Application

Apply to SPAR, a part-time, remote AI safety research mentorship connecting aspiring researchers with experienced mentors.

forms.sparai.org
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The deadline for my SPAR stream with @GovindPimpale is tonight AOE, we’ve been brainstorming some exciting projects across AI macrostrategy and emerging tech which I’m excited to collaborate on with talented contributors!
Dylan Bowman
@dylanbowmanSF
Jul 30
I’m mentoring a @SPARexec stream with @GovindPimpale called “Topics in AI strategy and futurism”. Last time we mentored for SPAR we won first prize at the demo day and I have every intention of reclaiming the throne (also it’s paid) 🧵1/n
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Checkout my project with @christinecorryy if you think you’re a good communicator!!
SPAR
@SPARexec
Aug 18
📣Today is the last day left to apply for this round of SPAR! Apply by August 18 to join our largest round yet — 200+ projects with mentors from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, RAND, AI Security Institute, Apollo Research, SecureBio, Machine Intelligence Research Institute, and more! Work on a part-time AI safety, AI policy, AI security, or biosecurity project. Open to students & professionals, prior research experience not required for all projects. 📝 Apply here: forms.sparai.org/spar/mentee… 📷 Browse open projects: tinyurl.com/sparf26projects2

SPAR Mentee Application

Apply to SPAR, a part-time, remote AI safety research mentorship connecting aspiring researchers with experienced mentors.

forms.sparai.org
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apply to Harshul's SPAR stream!!
Harshul Basava@hersheysbaklava
Aug 13
Replying to @hersheysbaklava
For more details, visit: sparai.org/projects/f26/recr… Apply if you're excited about AILW!

Successor to AI Lab Watch - SPAR Project

Monitor and evaluate safety practices at frontier labs by scrutinizing public-facing outputs.

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📣Today is the last day left to apply for this round of SPAR! Apply by August 18 to join our largest round yet — 200+ projects with mentors from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, RAND, AI Security Institute, Apollo Research, SecureBio, Machine Intelligence Research Institute, and more! Work on a part-time AI safety, AI policy, AI security, or biosecurity project. Open to students & professionals, prior research experience not required for all projects. 📝 Apply here: forms.sparai.org/spar/mentee… 📷 Browse open projects: tinyurl.com/sparf26projects2

SPAR Mentee Application

Apply to SPAR, a part-time, remote AI safety research mentorship connecting aspiring researchers with experienced mentors.

forms.sparai.org
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You have about 24 hours left to apply to @LydNot and I’s stream on LLM Introspection! Take a look at the link below if you’re curious 👀
Andrew Tran
@Andrxwtran
Aug 7
Yay! Come apply and do some cool work on model introspection 💭: sparai.org/projects/f26/recS…

You choose: Introspection - SPAR Project

I propose a collection of mini-projects focused on LLM introspection. Over the course of four months, you could work on 1-4 of these. You may also propose your...

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I’ll be mentoring SPAR projects on interpretability again. You’re gonna work 3 months half time in a team of like minded people and write an AI safety paper. Applications close in 24 hours! Apply here:
SPAR
@SPARexec
Aug 7
We're excited to announce that applications are now open for the Fall round of SPAR! 🧵 Join us for 3 months (September - December) in a remote program to work on impactful research projects with expert mentors in AI safety, AI policy, AI security, and Biosecurity.
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Applications for my SPAR project are open (til next Tues). Come work with me on weird agent foundations / causality stuff for a couple months 🤖. No coding, just scribbling. sparai.org/projects/f26/recC…

Formalizing what can and cannot be learned about agents with (causal) identifiability - SPAR Project

Build the groundwork for a theory of what can and cannot be learned about agents. E.g. for a specific agent model that invokes goals, beliefs, intents etc, when...

sparai.org
SPAR
@SPARexec
Aug 7
We're excited to announce that applications are now open for the Fall round of SPAR! 🧵 Join us for 3 months (September - December) in a remote program to work on impactful research projects with expert mentors in AI safety, AI policy, AI security, and Biosecurity.
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Excited to be mentoring two projects for @SPARexec’s Fall 2026 cohort, together with @davidbau! Both projects focus on mechanistically understanding the internal computations of LMs. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or want to learn more! 🧵
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Come work on replications of AI safety research with @zephaniahbroe and I at @SPARexec! @secondlookxlab is hosting 2-4 mentees over the Fall semester. SPAR runs Sept-Dec, part time, and our application should take <1 hour. You can expect 2+ hours of mentorship from Second Look along with external mentorship from researchers at orgs like Anthropic, X AI, Oxford, Redwood Research, and Geodesic. secondlookresearch.com/
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come work on AI safety meta-science for @secondlookxlab in our upcoming @SPARexec stream!! applications are due August 19th. plus our supplemental questions are fun! sparai.org/projects/f26/recQ…

Second Look Research: Replicating load-bearing AI safety research. - SPAR Project

Mentees will replicate a load-bearing paper or result in AI safety to improve the empirical foundations of the field.

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Yixiong Hao
@Yixiong_Hao
Aug 12
Come work on replications of AI safety research with @zephaniahbroe and I at @SPARexec! @secondlookxlab is hosting 2-4 mentees over the Fall semester. SPAR runs Sept-Dec, part time, and our application should take <1 hour. You can expect 2+ hours of mentorship from Second Look along with external mentorship from researchers at orgs like Anthropic, X AI, Oxford, Redwood Research, and Geodesic. secondlookresearch.com/
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Announcing a research project on comparing animal and AI welfare! As a @nonhumanminds-@RethinkPriors collaboration within the Moral Weight Project 2.0, it will assess welfare intensity across species and substrates. Feel free to apply via @SPARexec! sparai.org/projects/f26/
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Apply by Aug 18 to my SPAR project on unverbalized eval awareness!! 🎆 🧵
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WAISI members and alumni are conducting research at organizations including the University of Chicago Existential Risk Lab, the Cooperative AI Foundation, and MATS Research. This fall, three of them are mentoring projects in @SPARexec's Fall 2026 cohort, the program that connects new AI safety researchers with experienced mentors. 1/n
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