Pathfinder Fellowship

We’re excited to introduce our newest Kairos team members! The following 6 people have been hired at Kairos since May of this year.  • Sam Glendenning, Head of Workshops  • Robert Gledhill, Head of Operations  • Helena Dias, Senior Operations Manager  • Julian Moncarz, Generalist (Talent Operations)  • Bryan Sukidi, Generalist (Talent Operations)  • Andrés Cotton, SPAR Program Lead We're excited to have them on the team and for the great things they will do in the upcoming months. If you'd like to join them, we currently have 10 open roles. Applications are rolling, so apply here today: https://lnkd.in/gaJX6fQQ

Kairos has raised $50 million from Coefficient Giving, two years of funding to grow the next generation of leaders in AI safety. Agus and I started Kairos 2 years ago because we thought AI safety was going to be short on people well before it was short on money or ideas. Since then, we’ve supported over a thousand people through SPAR Research, the Pathfinder Fellowship, the Generator Residency, and the Global Challenges Project. Many of them now do critical work full time at core AI safety orgs. We’ve built infrastructure that works and scales, so we're going big. In January we were 3 people, today we're 12, and we're aiming for 18 by the end of the year. We're scaling up SPAR and our Group teams and launching Kairos Labs (an incubator for new AI safety organizations), a Talent Operations team, a Workshops team, and a Special Projects team to go after high-impact opportunities as they come up. To do all that, we’re assembling a world-class team of people who take risks from advanced AI seriously. We're hiring for 10 roles right now, and there's a lot of important work to do! If that sounds like you, or someone you know, take a look at our open roles: https://lnkd.in/gcaGszCk Thank you to Coefficient Giving and the GCR Capacity Building team for supporting us, and to our mentors, organizers, and partners. Thank you to my amazing co-founder, Agustín, who I couldn’t have done this without. And to our incredible team, who have worked very hard to get us to this moment: Rebecca, Antonia, Jeremy, Jesse, Sam, Robert, Helena, Julian, Bryan, Andrés, and Skye. I’m so grateful and proud of each of you and what we've built. I’m very excited about what we’ll accomplish together in the next 2 years. We're just getting started! (p.s. peep our new website -> https://lnkd.in/gPrBaEiN)

I am mentoring in the new generalist stream of SPAR Research this Fall! Apply by August 18 to work with 1-3 other European mentees and me on strengthening European AI safety uni groups. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/gVVHPnCA

I'm super proud of community and talent pipeline we've been able to build at the AI Safety Initiative at Georgia Tech. Over the past year, our members and alumni have: - Landed roles at METR, Anthropic, MATS Research, Pivotal Research, Redwood Research, ERA Cambridge, Horizon Institute for Public Service, California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, Constellation Institute, IFP – Institute for Progress, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) CAISI, Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS), and SPAR Research. - Published at NeurIPS, [ICML] Int'l Conference on Machine Learning, ICLR, COLM, EMNLP, and other conferences.. - Collectively raised over 1M USD for research and field building projects. We're wrote a retrospective on AY 2025-26 in which we share what we did, what worked, what didn't, and some things we've learned along the way. https://lnkd.in/gYwK-nvW We hope this shows just how impactful university groups can be, serve as a practical resource to other university AI safety groups, and inspire more ambitious field building work. If you're interested in staring an AI safety group at your university, some friends at aisafetyseeding.org can help! On a personal note, I'm stepping down as co-director and transitioning to advising! Harshul Basava and Rocio Perales Valdes will continue the mission as co-directors. Shoutout to the team and those who helped start GT AISI! Parv Mahajan, Ayush Panda, Meru Gopalan, Ishan Khire, Andrew Wei, Eyas Ayesh, Glenn Matlin, Alec Harris, Bratee Podder, Stepan Shabalin, Ethan Roland, Michael L. Chen, Abhay S., Gaurav Sett, Harshit Singhal, Jaisen Soundar

Only 37 of the top 100 U.S. News universities have an AI safety group. The AI Safety Seeding Initiative is partnering with Kairos to solve this. We're a small team of experienced founders who seek out and support students in launching an AI safety group at their university. We need your help finding founders! If you know a student at one of the priority universities listed who might be interested in AI safety or is heavily involved in the AI scene at their school, please refer them to us. If you’re unsure, err on the side of referring. Consider reposting this to amplify our search for leads! Website, referral form, and list of priority schools in comments. The team: Jason Chin (founder of Virginia AI Security Initiative) and Thomas Rodskog (founder of AI Safety at UCSB) are co-leading the project, with direct support from advisors Tzu Kit C. (Chief of Staff, Atlas Computing; seeded/mentored 50+ university groups around the world, primarily in the US) and Jeremy Kintana (Generalist, Kairos; former director of Wisconsin AI Safety Initiative).

The questions surrounding the safety of AI may be an unprecedented new challenge, but at Georgia Tech, students are already trying to answer them. The AI Safety Initiative at Georgia Tech is a student group aiming to steer AI research and policy for society’s benefit. “AI introduces new kinds of challenges into our legal and societal frameworks. Its capabilities emerge fast and on a jagged, hard-to-predict edge, which leaves AI governance like chasing a moving target. The work ahead is building the governance and technical tools we need to evaluate these systems, set direction, and enforce them without hindering innovation.” —Rocio Perales Valdes https://lnkd.in/exg-ebXi