News

04-25-25

AISST-MAIA Interuniversity AI Safety Social! 🥯

Social

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!

04-24-25

BlueDot Impact AI Policy — Perspectives on AI Safety Talk! 🧑‍⚖️

Talk

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!

04-23-25

End-of-semester social @ Carter's apartment! 🏡

Social

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

04-21-25

Professor Chris Wiggins gave us a talk on AI safety in the press! 📰

Talk

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.

04-20-25

End-of-semester fellowship facilitator dinner! 🍜

Social

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!

04-13-25

AISST-MAIA AI Safety Workshop! 🌳

Workshop

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.

03-29-25

Visit to UChicago's Symposium on Transformative AI 🧠

Talk

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!

03-14-25

Research groups kick off 🚀

03-10-25

Sweta Karlekar (https://sweta.dev/) gave us a talk on Mech Interp!

Mech Interp Talk Thank you Sweta for the great talk!

02-28-25

Club social at Avery Basement 🍕

02-28-25

First admin meeting of 2025

First admin meeting