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Thank you so much to Navya, Sneha, Arjun, and Pranav for taking the time to speak with students on their experiences with research at MATS, Paragon, and CMU!

A huge thank you to the NYC Impact Hub for making this all happen. We're so excited to see the AIS community come together right here in New York!

We went downtown to snag some free Claude swag together!

We kicked off our Fall 2025 technical and governance fellowships!

We couldn't have asked for better company -- thank you all for coming to our social! We hope the poached pear pizza was delightful.

We met so many wonderfully aligned people at the club fair. Thank you all for showing up -- Max the Misaligned Cat cordially invites you to join CAIAC!

CAIAC was invited to OASIS. There were amazing speakers! We learned a lot and made many friends. Thanks Kairos!

• Holden Karnofsky - Anthropic (Open Phil Founder)
• Richard Ngo - (Previously Open AI)
• Ryan Kidd - MATS
• Buck Shlegeris - Redwood
• Ryan Greenblatt - Redwood 
• Robert Miles - AIS YouTuber
• Max Nadeau - Open Phil 
• Lauren Mangla - Constellation
• Neav Topaz - Kairos
• Nikola Jurkovic - METR (Previously AISST) 
• Juan Gil - MATS
• Kuhan Jeyapragasan - CBAI, (Previously SAIA, SERI)
• McKenna Fitzgerald - ARI (Previously MATS)
• Thomas Larsen - AI 2027 (Previously CAIP)
• Sydney Von Arx - METR

We kicked off our ARENA upskilling program! We'll work together over the summer to take a deep dive into understanding transformer interpretability, reinforcement learning, and evaluations. Thank you to ARENA for creating this course!

Here's the link to follow along: https://arena-chapter0-fundamentals.streamlit.app

Adam Gleave (CEO of FAR.AI) gave a talk spanning AI capabilities, a live demo of some jailbreak work, and a deep dive into work on AI security. Thank you for stopping by and hosting this insightful talk!

We had the best time connecting (and reconnecting!) with only the best people coming from BU, Brown, Harvard, MIT, and Tufts. A huge thank you to AISST and MAIA for organizing this event, and we're so glad that everyone enjoyed the 52 bagels we brought from New York! Much love to everyone — see you all soon!

Thank you to Sally, Rishabh, and Anne for hosting this wonderful talk & thank you to Rupi and Changlin for sharing your perspectives on AI policy!

As always, thank you so much to Carter for hosting a wonderful social! We have been good Bings this semester.

Thank you Professor Wiggins for the wonderful talk!

• Professor Chris H. Wiggins is the Chief Data Scientist @ New York Times and an Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics @ Columbia.

Thank you so much to our ten wonderful facilitators for the past eight weeks we spent learning and discussing readings in technical AIS and AI policy. CAIAC would not be what it is today without you — thank you for your energy and dedication this semester, and we are rooting for your continued success in AIS!

Listened to talks from:

• David Bau @ Northeastern University, Assistant Professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences
• Brad Knox @ University of Texas at Austin, Associate Professor of Computer Science
• Kevin Liu @ OpenAI, Preparedness Team
• Neev Parikh @ METR, Researcher
• Sam Marks @ Anthropic, Researcher
• Cody Rushing @ Redwood Research

Connected with AIS groups at Harvard, MIT, BU, and GTech. A relaxing weekend full of wonderful conversations and cool research in Essex Woods, MA! Thank you so much to AISST and MAIA for organizing this event.

Listened to talks from:

• Michael Aird @ RAND
• Ross Nordby @ Anthropic
• Victor Veitch @ University of Chicago / DeepMind
• Jessica Hullman @ Northwestern University
• Charlie Bullock @ LawAI

Connected with other Uni AIS groups and had a lot of fun! Thanks UChicago X-risk Lab!

Thank you Sweta for the great talk!