a project of the AI Safety Seeding Initiative

University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN

AI Safety at U Minnesota

There isn’t an AI safety group at U Minnesota yet. We’re looking for the people to lead one.

The University of Minnesota has tens of thousands of technical students, more than enough to build a serious AI safety community. It just needs a founding team. If that might be you, we help with mentorship, curriculum, and a path to funding. All free.

I’m interested twenty seconds, right on this page

Why U Minnesota.

The College of Science and Engineering makes Minnesota a serious technical university, with tens of thousands of students studying exactly the fields an AI safety community draws from. A student body that large, in a school with real engineering depth, is exactly where such a community belongs. Right now there isn’t one. Regional peers like Wisconsin and UChicago already have groups. Minnesota is a gap on the map, and someone gets to be the first to fill it.

What you’d be starting.

A real group

A reading group working through alignment research, a cohort running an AI safety fundamentals course, or a technical team building projects. You decide the shape.

With support

Mentorship from organizers who have run these groups, a ready-made curriculum, and help finding co-founders and building a site.

And funding

A path to funding through the Pathfinder fellowship, for speakers, food, compute, and the group’s activities. Free to you, always.

Could you lead it?

Twenty seconds. A few quick questions so we know where you’re starting from.

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