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  • AI Policy Tuesday: Verification Mechanisms for Global AI Governance

    Tuesday, December 9 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

    ​How can we make sure AI companies follow the rules?

    ​International AI governance is limited by our ability to verify compliance with agreements.

    ​Wim Howson Creutzberg gives an overview of existing options for verification mechanisms for international ai governance and assesses their viability.

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  • Weird AI Wednesday: The Rise of Parasitic AI

    Wednesday, December 17, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

    “We've all heard of LLM-induced psychosis by now, but haven't you wondered what the AIs are actually doing with their newly psychotic humans?"

    ​In this talk, Mario Gibney brings us on a deep dive into this report on the phenomenon of which AI-induced psychosis is only the tip of the iceberg.n goes here

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  • AI Safety Thursday: Agentic Bug Detection - Progress and Deployment

    Thursday, December 18, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

    ​As AI advances and impacts cybersecurity, the evolution of the offence-defence balance will have profound implications.

    ​Leo Zovic provides an update on his work to deploy AI agents to detect bugs, with potentially widespread impacts on defensive hardening of code at scale.

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Past Events

  • AI Safety Thursdays: Avoiding Gradual Disempowerment

    ​Thursday, July 3rd, 6pm-8pm

    This talk explored the concept of gradual disempowerment as an alternative to the abrupt takeover scenarios often discussed in AI safety. Dr David Duvenaud examined how even incremental improvements in AI capabilities can erode human influence over critical societal systems, including the economy, culture, and governance.

  • AI Policy Tuesdays: Agent Governance

    Tuesday, June 24th.

    Kathrin Gardhouse presented on the nascent field of Agent Governance, drawing from a recent report by IAPS.

    ​The presentation covered current agent capabilities, expected developments, governance challenges, and proposed solutions.

  • Hackathon: Apart x Martian Mechanistic Router Interpretability Hackathon

    Friday, May 30 - Sunday, Jun 1.

    We hosted a jamsite for Apart Research and Martian's hackathon.

  • AI Safety Thursdays: Advanced AI's Impact on Power and Society

    ​Thursday, May 29th, 6pm-8pm

    Historically, significant technological shifts often coincide with political instability, and sometimes violent transfers of power. Should we expect AI to follow this pattern, or are there reasons to hope for a smooth transition to the post AI world?

    ​Anson Ho drew upon economic models, broad historical trends, and recent developments in deep learning to guide us through an exploration of this question.

  • AI + Human Flourishing: Policy Levers for AI Governance

    Sunday, May 4, 2025.

    Considerations of AI governance are increasingly urgent as powerful models become more capable and widely deployed. Kathrin Gardhouse delivered a presentation on the available mechanisms we can use to govern AI, from policy levers to technical AI governance. It was a high-level introduction to the world of AI policy to get a sense of the lay of the land.

  • AI Safety Thursday: "AI-2027"

    Thursday April 24th, 2025.

    On April 3rd, a team of AI experts and superforecasters at The AI Futures Project, published a narrative called AI-2027 outlining a possible scenario of explosive AI development and takeover occurring during the coming 2 years.

    Mario Gibney guided us through a presentation and discussion of the scenario where we explore how likely it is to actually track reality in the coming years.

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