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This event ran from Friday January 5th 19:00 UTC to Sunday January 7th 2024
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The development of artificial intelligence presents vast opportunities alongside significant risks. During this intensive weekend-long sprint, we will concentrate on governance strategies to mitigate and secure against the gravest risks along with narrative explorations of what the future might look like.
Sign up to collaborate with others who are delving into some of today's most critical questions: How can we effectively safeguard the security of both current and future AI systems? And what are the broader societal implications of this transformative technology?
Follow along live for the keynote on our YouTube.
Watch the recording of the keynote here. Access Esben's slides here.
Below, you can see each case along with reading material for each. Notice also the live collective review pages under each case.
The EU AI Act is one of the most ambitious legislations for AI at the moment. During the implementation stages of the next two years, it is important that we understand how the legislation affects various actors in the space of AI.
Go to the shared notes and ideas document for this case.
One of the biggest problems of successful societal-scale AI legislation compared to legislation for other high-risk technologies is that it is difficult to properly control compute and AI development. One bad actor has a significant amount of power.
Go to the shared notes and ideas document for this case.
Produce resources that can help decision-makers, such as policymakers, learn about a particular aspect of AI safety. This could include one-pagers, short videos, info-graphics, and more.
Go to the shared notes and ideas document for this case.
Write a story about how a future world with AI looks and how we got there. You may either base it on 1) things going well, 2) things going bad or 3) a place in-between. We encourage you to be creative! As a starting prompt, you can tell a story of a small part of the world in 2040 from the future perspective.
Go to the shared notes and ideas document for this case.
Besides the amazing opportunity to dive into an exciting topic, we are delighted to present our prizes for the top projects. We hope that this can support you your work on AI safety, possibly with our fellowship program, the Apart Lab!
Our jury will review the projects submitted to the research sprint and the top 3 projects will receive prizes according to the jury's reviews of each criterion!
Besides the top project prizes, we work to identify projects and teams that seem ready to continue their work towards real-world impact in the Apart Lab fellowship where you receive mentorship and peer review towards your eventual publication or other output.
A big thank you to Straumli for sponsoring the $1,000 prize!
The schedule is still to be finalized but you can expect the times to be within 3 hours of the final schedule. All times are updated to your local time zone.
The Apart Sprints are weekend-long challenges hosted by Apart to help you get exposure to real-world problems and develop object-level work that takes the field one step closer to more secure artificial intelligence! Read more about the project here.
Your team's submission must follow a template provided at the start of the Sprint. The template for cases 1 and 2 follow a traditional research paper structure. The template for cases 3 and 4 is more free-form. The instructions will be visible in each template.
Your team will be between 1 and 5 people and you will submit your project based on the template in addition to a title, a description and private contact information. There will be a team-making event right after the keynote for anyone who is missing a team.
You are allowed to think about your project before the hackathon starts (and we recommend reading all the resources for the cases!) but your core research work should happen in the duration of the hackathon.
The jury will review your project according to a series of criteria that are designed to help you develop your project.
If you are part of a local machine learning or AI safety group, you are very welcome to set up a local in-person site to work together with people on this hackathon! We will have several across the world and you can easily sign up under the “Locations” tab above.
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For Case 1 and 2, please use this template – four pages along with the appendix that we do not guarantee judges will read. Case 3 and 4 are more free-form submissions but you will need to submit a PDF from this template. Instructions are in the templates as well.
If you wish to record a presentation of your work, you can use the recording capability of e.g. Keynote, Powerpoint, and Slides (using Vimeo).
Watch the live project presentations here (ignore the frozen screen at the beginning, the audio works fine). Big congratulations and great work to our winners!
With our honorable mentions:
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