AI Safety Training
This is a regularly-updated database of upcoming training programs for AI existential safety. If you are new to AI safety and would like to know more, we recommend visiting AI Safety Info.
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Self-study
Facilitated courses are usually heavily oversubscribed. However, materials are openly available and lots of other people want to learn, so you can form your own study groups! Pick your preferred course, then introduce yourself in #study-buddies on the AI Alignment Slack to make a group, or go to AI Safety Quest and form a Quest Party.
8 week courses by BlueDot Impact covering much of the foundations of the field and ongoing research directions.
Alignment Forum Curated Sequences
Sequences of blog posts by researchers on the Alignment Forum covering diverse topics.
Curated and tested list of resources that Arkose sends to AI researchers, excellent for getting a grounding in the problem.
Extensive annotated reading recommendations from the Center for Human-Compatible AI.
8 weeks reading curriculum from PIBBSS.ai that 'provides an extended introduction to some key ideas in AI risk, in particular risks from misdirected optimization or 'consequentialist cognition'.
Machine learning-focused
Machine-learning focused courses for people who want to work on alignment are also available, though take care not to end up drifting into a purely capabilities enhancing role on this track!
40 hours of recorded lectures, written assignments, coding assignments, and readings by the Center for AI Safety, used in the ML Safety Scholars program.
Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator
An advanced course to skill up in ML engineering to work in technical AI Alignment roles.
Deep Learning Curriculum by Jacob Hilton
An advanced curriculum for getting up to speed with some of the latest developments in deep learning, as of July 2022. It is targeted at people with a strong quantitative background who are familiar with the basics of deep learning, but may otherwise be new to the field.
Many tools to get started and skill up in Interpretability by Alignment Jam. The toolkit includes Quickstart to Mechanistic Interpretability by Neel Nanda.
Levelling Up in AI Safety Research Engineering
A level-based guide for independently upskilling in AI safety research engineering. Aims to give concrete objectives, goals, and resources to help anyone go from zero to hero.
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