Columbia AI Alignment Club

Research by Columbia students on catastrophic risks from advanced AI

We are a community of technical and policy researchers at Columbia aimed at steering the trajectory of AI development for the better by reducing risks from advanced artificial intelligence — an endeavor we think may be one of the most important problems of our time. We also find it to be an interesting and exciting problem with ample opportunities for many more researchers to work on it.

CAIAC supports undergraduate and graduate students in learning about and conducting research relevant to reducing risks from advanced AI. We also run semester-long introductory reading groups on AI safety, including both a technical machine learning track, and a policy track.

Our past members have worked with:

Anthropic
OpenAI
Redwood Research
Constellation
ML Alignment and Theory Scholars
Goodfire
CHAI
XLab
Supervised Program for Alignment Research
Apollo Research
Latest News

03-13-26

Q&A with Aryan Bhatt (Redwood Research) on AI Control!

01-24-26

CAIAC @ OASIS + Lighthaven!