About AI Safety Saarland
We are a student-led initiative passionate about driving change. Through reading groups, fellowships and events, we bring people from every discipline together to understand the risks from advanced AI — and to work on reducing them.
Meet the team
Why it matters
AI systems are getting more capable every year and are being built into more of the world. Making sure they stay safe, controllable and beneficial is one of the defining challenges of our generation.
Each new generation of models can do more, and they're being deployed into research, business and public life before we fully understand them.
Reliably getting advanced systems to do what we intend — and understanding what happens inside them — are research questions we haven't solved yet.
Mistakes or misuse could affect everyone. That's why technical research, good governance and informed public debate matter now, not later.
Our mission
To foster interdisciplinary exchange, education, and research addressing large-scale risks from AI development and deployment at Saarland University and beyond.
Programs
Start with the fundamentals in our weekly Introductory Fellowship — no prior experience needed.
Learn the fundamentals of AI Safety and Governance through a weekly reading and discussion group.
Sub-chapter
Making AI safe also requires security — to stop adversaries gaining access to powerful models, individuals training secret loyalties into models, or models exfiltrating themselves. Join us if you're especially interested in the intersection of cybersecurity and AI.
Learn moreA closed, in-person reading group exploring critical and neglected problems in AI security — threat models and research agendas for safeguarding advanced AI systems.
A half-day event with invited talks from people working on AI security professionally, plus time for students to connect and ask questions.
Structured sprints for students who want to move from reading about AI security to working on it. More details to be announced.
Events
We host regular public events with invited speakers as well as casual get-togethers to build a community. Fellows get access to further exclusive events.
Join the community to hear about fellowships, reading groups and events first.
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