AISST Membership Application
Note: Membership applicants are generally expected to have completed the introductory technical fellowship or policy fellowship.
AISST membership entails:
Weekly member meetings, where we discuss alignment research and policy proposals in detail.
Frequent internal talks and Q&As by alignment/governance researchers and professors. In the past, guests have included Professors Larry Lessig, Jonathan Zittrain, Boaz Barak, Sham Kakade, Martin Wattenberg, and David Bau, as well as researchers Chris Olah (Anthropic), Daniel Kokotajlo (OpenAI), Sandhini Agarwal (OpenAI), Trenton Bricken (Anthropic), Zac Hatfield-Dodds (Anthropic), Buck Shlegeris (Redwood), and many others.
24/7 access to our office, where you can co-work on AI safety with other AISST members.
Connections to top AI Safety organizations; in the past, our members work closely with groups like OpenAI, Anthropic, Redwood Research, GovAI, the US AI Safety Institute, the Alignment Research Center, METR, and others.
Invitations to semesterly workshops — a weekend filled with AI safety programming and discussions in the woods.
Full access to our active Slack workspace, where we discuss the latest AI news, papers, research ideas, and AI safety opportunities.
Joining a community of thoughtful, talented undergraduate and graduate students interested in reducing risks from advanced AI. AISST currently has around 95 members across the College, SEAS, GSAS, HKS, HLS, and HBS.
Membership applications for intro fellows are now live! Earlier applications will receive earlier responses.
We have a high bar for membership and expect AISST members to be engaged throughout their time as members. Please reach out at contact@haist.ai with questions.
