Incubator Week
About BlueDot
BlueDot is the leading talent accelerator for beneficial AI and societal resilience. We run courses, help people land jobs, organise events all over the world, and accelerate entrepreneurs to start new companies. Our 8,000+ alumni work at top organizations in AI safety, governance, and biosecurity.
Programs
Step one: See where AI is going
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The Future of AI
Free, self-paced, no application. Finish in an evening with a clearer picture of frontier AI and how to help.
2 hours | Free | No application
Step two: Understand how you can help
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AGI Strategy
You know AI is a huge deal. You're not sure what to do about it. This is where you start.
25 hours | Cohort-based
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Technical AI Safety
For technical talent ready to work on AI safety. Figure out where your technical skills can make the biggest difference.
30 hours | Cohort-based
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Frontier AI Governance
For people ready to shape how frontier AI is governed. Evaluate proposals, take positions, and find where you have leverage.
30 hours | Cohort-based
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Biosecurity
A pandemic-proof world is possible. Learn how to prevent, detect, and respond to the next pandemic, and where you fit in.
30 hours | Cohort-based
Step three: Start contributing
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Rapid Grants
Funding for the BlueDot community to ship projects, run events, and do other concrete work on AI safety and biosecurity.
$1,276,165 deployed so far across 587 grants.
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Career Transition Grants
Funding and support to help you go full-time on AI safety and biosecurity.
$3,109,949 awarded so far across 52 grants.
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Incubator Week
5 days in San Francisco. All expenses paid. Up to $100k in funding if we back your pitch.
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Community Impact
25% of our graduates land impactful roles within six months of completing a course. Hiring managers at major AI companies and governments recruit from our community. We host remote and in-person events worldwide every week.
Notable Alumni
- Alexandra Abbas – Technical Program Manager @ Meridian Research Labs
- Cameron Holmes – Alignment Research Manager at UK AI Security Institute
- Chris Ackerman – Research Manager at MATS
- Edward Tsoi – Founder @ AI Safety Asia
- Ekin Zorer – Cyber & Autonomous Systems @ UK AI Security Institute
- Michael Aird – AI Program Director @ Longview Philanthropy
- Neel Nanda – Mech Interp Lead at Google DeepMind
- Oliver Ritchie – UK Policy Lead @ Future of Life Institute
- Peter Babigumira Ahabwe – Epidemic Analyst, Ugandan Ministry of Health
- Rebecca Chandler Bostock – AI x Bio Research Scientist @ SecureBio
- Sarah Koeller – Centre for Forecasting & Outbreak Analytics, US CDC
- Seyed-Moeen Hosseinalipour – PhD, University of Geneva
- Stuart Jennings – Engineering Manager at UK AISI
- Sukrati Gautam – Applied Scientist @ Amazon
- Adam Jones – Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic
- Ashyana Jasmine-Kachara – Harmful Manipulations Lead @ Google DeepMind
- Catherine Fist – Head of Delivery at UK AI Security Institute
- David Conrad – Managing Director @ Talos Network
- Janvi Ahuja – Pandemics Sciences Institute, Oxford
- Kris Bar – CEO @ London Initiative for Safe AI
- Luke Dawes – Managing Director @ Future Impact Group
- Marius Hobbhahn – CEO at Apollo Research
- Milos Borenovic – Chief Product Officer & Partnerships Lead @ Lucid Computing
- Richard Ngo – Former OpenAI and DeepMind
- Aditya Mehta – ERA Cambridge Fellow
- Alejandro Tlaie Boria – AI Policy Advisor @ Pour Demain
- Aryan Goenka – SPAR Research Fellow
- Austin Morrissey – Pivotal Research Fellow
- Chloe Dempsey – Strategy & Policy Advisory, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
- Christopher Danz – ML Engineer, CBTW
- Constantin Weisser – Former ML consultant at McKinsey
- David Janku – AI Governance Researcher, Centre for Future Generations
- Electra Frost – ElectraFi / Institute of Public Accountants
- Elise Racine – Research Manager, MATS; DPhil Candidate, Oxford
- Farhan Azam – SPAR Research Fellow
- Filip Alimpic – Pivoting from Climate to AI safety, ex-European Commission
- Geoffrey Odlum – Former Director, Office of WMD Terrorism, US State Department
- Giovanna Jaramillo Gutierrez – Now leads CBRN at the EU AI Office
- Girish Gupta – Researcher @ EleutherAI
- Hannah Waller – Winter Fellow @ GovAI
- Heramb Podar – GovAI Fellow
- Ian Beatty – Research Affiliate @ Fourth Eon Bio
- Ipshita Bandyopadhyay – SPAR Research Fellow
- Isha Harris – SPAR Research Fellow
- Jack Douglass – Research Assistant @ Strive Bioscience
- Jacob Davies – ERA Research Manager
- James Chai – ERA AI Governance Fellow
- Jamie Stephenson – SPAR Research Fellow
- Karam Elabd – 1Day Sooner
- Kazuki Kimura – International Coordinator at Japan AI Safety Institute
- Khullani Abdullahi – Founder of Techné AI, now a course facilitator
- Kristen Cordell – Former Director for Strategic Initiatives at National Security Council
- Lee Wall – ERA AI x Bio Fellow
- Lekan Adesina – SPAR Research Fellow
- Mathieu Duteil – SPAR Research Fellow
- Matthew Khoriaty – ERA Cambridge Fellow
- Mel Garcia – Operations Manager, Palisade Research
- Natalie Kiilu – Oxford Biosecurity Group, Lawyer & researcher
- Nathaniel Mitrani – Researcher @ University of Cambridge
- Nikki Aluquin – Research Assistant, SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute
- Niveditha Sasi Kumar – SPAR Research Fellow
- Perla Medrano – ERA Cambridge Fellow
- Preeti Ravindra – Senior Fellow @ Pivotal Research
- Radman Rakhshandehroo – SPAR Research Fellow
- Roshni Lulla – Co-founder @ Institute for Humane Robotics
- Sabrina Shih – AI Policy Manager at Responsible AI Institute
- Saheb Gulati – Special Projects @ Center for AI Safety
- Sara Pieri – Research Assistant at MBZUAI
- Scott Blain – LASR Fellow
- Sofiia Lobanova – SPAR Research Fellow
- Suchet Mittal – GovAI Fellow
- Sultan Hassan – SPAR Research Fellow
- Tanvi Nautiyal – Strategy & Operations Lead, Google Cloud
- Tejaswini Dhurde – SPAR Research Fellow
- Utkarsh Khanna – Research Fellow @ LASR Labs; Ex-Google ML engineer
- Vilija Vainaite – ERA Technical AI Gov Fellow
- Ana Carvalho – Contributor at AI Safety Engineering Taskforce
- Chayanon Kitkana – (Role not specified)
- Chiara Gerosa – Executive Director at Talos
- Cortney Busch – Operations Director @ Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology
- Daniel Reti – Co-founder of Exona Lab
- Dr Michael Friedman – Asia Center for Health Security
- Felix Moronta – International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology
- Juan Felipe Ceron Uribe – AI Alignment Research Engineer at OpenAI
- Luca Ambroz – Co-founder of Exona Lab
- Mia Hopman – Member of Technical Staff @ Apollo Research
- Nikita Ostrovsky – AI Reporter at TIME
- Pranav Pativada – Founding Engineer, AI Underwriting Company
- Rachel Hovde – Policy Director, Americans for Responsible Innovation
- Raffael Luca Schumann – Jason Chin Lab, Cambridge
- Ryan Kidd – Co-director @ MATS
- Scott Olesen – Centre for Forecasting & Outbreak Analytics, US CDC