SPAR

We're a part-time, virtual research program that gives students and early career professionals an opportunity to work with professional AI safety researchers.

[SPAR @SPARexec]

We're excited to announce that applications are now open for the Fall round of SPAR! 🧵

Join us for 3 months (September - December) in a remote program to work on impactful research projects with expert mentors in AI safety, AI policy, AI security, and Biosecurity.

[Jeremy Kintana @jeremy_kintana]

Kairos is an incredible team and I feel proud to play a part. If any of our roles interest you, you should apply! Happy to chat about the org as well, DMs open :)

[Rhys @RhysLindmark]

Let there be more human capital!

(aka let the next HF incident be evaled by more than 3 people!)

[Andy Wang @andyw_ais]

I wouldn't have fully pivoted into AI safety a year ago without Kairos and their amazing programs. So excited!

[tonchi matta @tonchimatta]

@austinc3301 @fdosmither @coeff_giving @KairosAIS Congrats!!!
also, great rebranding and landing page

[Agus 🔸 @austinc3301]

I'm very excited to announce that Kairos just raised $50M from @coeff_giving to build talent infrastructure for AI safety. We're using it to ambitiously grow our team and portfolio of projects, and we're now hiring for 10 open roles. 🧵

[Kairos @KairosAIS]

We're very excited to announce that Kairos has raised $50M from @coeff_giving for building talent infrastructure for AI safety.

We're now hiring for 10 roles in our team!

https://t.co/ChMma2RcuF

[Jeff Sebo @jeffrsebo]

Apply today!

[Dylan Bowman @dylanbowmanSF]

The deadline for my SPAR stream with @GovindPimpale is tonight AOE, we’ve been brainstorming some exciting projects across AI macrostrategy and emerging tech which I’m excited to collaborate on with talented contributors!

[Kaustubh @kaustubhais]

Checkout my project with @christinecorryy if you think you’re a good communicator!!

[Zephaniah Roe @zephaniahbroe]

apply to Harshul's SPAR stream!!

[SPAR @SPARexec]

📣Today is the last day left to apply for this round of SPAR!

Apply by August 18 to join our largest round yet — 200+ projects with mentors from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, RAND, AI Security Institute, Apollo Research, SecureBio, Machine Intelligence Research Institute, and more!

Work on a part-time AI safety, AI policy, AI security, or biosecurity project. Open to students & professionals, prior research experience not required for all projects.

📝 Apply here: https://t.co/KPkezpTr4x
📷 Browse open projects: https://t.co/4MI9N88lNV

[Andrew Tran @Andrxwtran]

You have about 24 hours left to apply to @LydNot and I’s stream on LLM Introspection! Take a look at the link below if you’re curious 👀

[Georg Lange @_georg_lange]

I’ll be mentoring SPAR projects on interpretability again.

You’re gonna work 3 months half time in a team of like minded people and write an AI safety paper.

Applications close in 24 hours!

Apply here:

[Jon Richens @jonathanrichens]

Applications for my SPAR project are open (til next Tues). Come work with me on weird agent foundations / causality stuff for a couple months 🤖. No coding, just scribbling. https://t.co/75vd9ihyZ6

[Nikhil Prakash @nikhil07prakash]

Excited to be mentoring two projects for @SPARexec’s Fall 2026 cohort, together with @davidbau!

Both projects focus on mechanistically understanding the internal computations of LMs. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or want to learn more! 🧵

[Yixiong Hao @Yixiong_Hao]

Come work on replications of AI safety research with @zephaniahbroe and I at @SPARexec! @secondlookxlab is hosting 2-4 mentees over the Fall semester.

SPAR runs Sept-Dec, part time, and our application should take <1 hour. You can expect 2+ hours of mentorship from Second Look along with external mentorship from researchers at orgs like Anthropic, X AI, Oxford, Redwood Research, and Geodesic.

https://t.co/TfMjsFeBtT

[Zephaniah Roe @zephaniahbroe]

come work on AI safety meta-science for @secondlookxlab in our upcoming @SPARexec stream!!

applications are due August 19th. plus our supplemental questions are fun!

https://t.co/s4TV1CAysA

[Jeff Sebo @jeffrsebo]

Announcing a research project on comparing animal and AI welfare! As a @nonhumanminds-@RethinkPriors collaboration within the Moral Weight Project 2.0, it will assess welfare intensity across species and substrates. Feel free to apply via @SPARexec!

https://t.co/LZ2XXVuQGp

[J Rosser @jrosseruk]

Apply by Aug 18 to my SPAR project on unverbalized eval awareness!! 🎆 🧵

[Wisconsin AI Safety Initiative @aisafetyuw]

WAISI members and alumni are conducting research at organizations including the University of Chicago Existential Risk Lab, the Cooperative AI Foundation, and MATS Research.

This fall, three of them are mentoring projects in @SPARexec's Fall 2026 cohort, the program that connects new AI safety researchers with experienced mentors.

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