Fellowships

We offer two parallel introductory fellowships in AI Safety: alignment and governance.

The governance track examines the role of policy, institutions, and global coordination to reduce AI risks, while the alignment track introduces the technical challenge of making AI systems reliably follow human intentions.

Both tracks provide a firm grounding in AI safety and set participants up to pursue meaningful work in the field.

Fellowships run weekly over dinner for 8 sessions in the form of paper discussions, with timing set by fellows and facilitators.

Applications will reopen in mid-December

curriculum developed by BlueDot Impact, adapted by TAISI

Governance Fellowship

8 weeks

Adapted from Bluedot’s governance curriculum

  • Topics include:

    • forecasting

    • overview of key actors

    • identifying levers for effective policy frameworks

    • governance at frontier labs

    • Canada’s role in international cooperation

    • contributing to AI governance

Alignment Fellowship

8 weeks

Adapted from Bluedot’s alignment curriculum

  • Topics include:

    • intro to deep learning (first session only)

    • reinforcement learning from human feedback

    • scalable oversight

    • mechanistic interpretability

    • technical governance

    • contributing to technical AI safety

Dates: September 28st - Nov 28th (weekly)

Applications closed on September 15. Check back for our second round next semester!