BlueDot AGI Strategy Fund

BlueDot AGI Strategy Fund is sponsored by AISafety. com (affiliated with BlueDot Impact). The BlueDot AGI Strategy Fund offers grants for individuals building high-impact AI safety projects.

Applicants are typically required to have completed their AGI Strategy course.

AGI Strategy Course | BlueDot Impact Optimistic and concerned about AI's trajectory? Want to do something about it? Start here.

25 hours to understand the strategic landscape, find your entry point, and get moving. Apply by 13 Sep Browse curriculum Optimistic and concerned about AI's trajectory? Want to do something about it?

Start here. 25 hours to understand the strategic landscape, find your entry point, and get moving. Apply by 13 Sep Browse curriculum Our 10,000+ alumni work at You've read some essays, watched the talks, and you don't think the people building AGI have a serious plan for making it go well.

You want to change that. The course is an in-depth introduction to what's going on with AI development, what the good and bad outcomes could be, and what could be done to steer AI towards better futures.

It's built for three groups: 1) domain experts in policy, security, operations, or engineering looking to redirect their skills; 2) people heading into technical safety or governance roles who want the strategic picture first; and 3) newcomers who are serious about making big moves and having a huge impact. Not sure you fit? Apply anyway.

Recent cohorts have also included teachers, lawyers, engineers, and community organisers. How this course will benefit you A launchpad for your AI safety career You'll leave this course with an opinion on which threats matter, early takes on how we could solve these problems, and concrete next steps you can take. A clear way to think about the future of AI You'll analyse the incentives facing AI companies.

You'll develop "kill chains" to analyse the threats. And you'll apply defense in depth to evaluate and prioritise interventions. You'll know enough to hold your own in rooms with experts.

BlueDot has 10,000+ alumni, with many now working at Anthropic, DeepMind, UK AISI, and dozens of organisations working on a safe transition to advanced AI. You'll meet people in the field who can open doors for you and pressure-test your thinking. This course is where you get oriented.

What comes next depends on you. Interpretability, evals, alignment research. For people ready to work on the technical problems.

Policy, institutions, international coordination. For people shaping how these systems get governed. Pandemic preparedness, early warning systems, policy.

For people building defences against bio risks. Small, fast funding for concrete AI safety work. Five-minute application, decisions in days, money upfront by default.

Funding to enable you to work full-time on impactful AI safety work. Propose your plan and we'll back you. Intensive (~5 days at ~5h/day) or part-time (~5 weeks at ~5h/week).

Same content, different pace. Each day or week, you will: Complete 3 hours of reading and writing, and join ~8 peers in a 2-hour Zoom meeting to discuss the content. All discussions will be facilitated by an AI safety expert.

This course is freely available and operates on a "pay-what-you-want" model. "We should not underestimate the real threats coming from AI [while] we have a narrowing window of opportunity to guide this technology responsibly." Ursula von der Leyen President, European Commission "I've always thought of AI as the most profound technology humanity is working on.

More profound than fire or electricity or anything that we've done in the past… The downside is, at some point, that humanity loses control of the technology it's developing." Sundar Pichai "AI could surpass almost all humans at almost everything shortly after 2027."

Dario Amodei "I'm all in favor of accelerating technological progress, but there is something unsettling about the way OpenAI explicitly declares its mission to be the creation of AGI. AI is a wonderful tool for the betterment of humanity; AGI is a potential successor species … To the extent the mission produces extra motivation for the team to ship good products, it's a positive.

To the extent it might actually succeed, it's a reason for concern." David Sacks White House AI and Crypto Czar Frequently Asked Questions What background do I need? We don't care about your CV.

We care about what you'll do next. Recent cohorts have included people from policy, engineering, law, medicine, operations, and academia. What they shared was drive and a bias toward action.

Is this course for beginners? It's for people new to working on AI safety, not new to thinking hard. If you've been reading and thinking, and are ready to act, this is where you start.

What's the difference between intensive and part-time? Same content, different pace. Intensive is 5 days at ~5h/day, for people who can clear a week and want to move fast.

Part-time is 5 weeks at ~5h/week, for people fitting this around other commitments. Both end in the same place. What time zones do you run cohorts in?

We run discussions across a wide range of timezones. You'll tell us your availability and we'll put you in a group that works for your current schedule. What if I don't know which direction I want to go?

That's what the course is for. You'll leave with a view on which problems matter most and which path fits your skills: technical research, governance, biosecurity, or building something new. Figuring that out is the work.

Is there funding available? Yes. See bluedot.

org/programs for current grants and how to apply. Who is BlueDot Impact? BlueDot is the leading talent accelerator for beneficial AI and societal resilience.

We run courses, help people land jobs, organise events around the world, and back people starting new organisations. We've trained thousands of people since 2022. Our alumni now work at Anthropic, DeepMind, UK AISI, and have founded new organisations working on a safe transition to advanced AI.

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