October 2024 AI Alignment project prize categories

As described in the project guidance, there are prizes for the October 2024 AI alignment course project sprint! These are meant to celebrate great achievements, highlight exceptional work, and promote tackling important problems.

You can see previous prize winners for inspiration.

Prize categories

Best technical research project: £200
Runner up prize: £50

This prize recognizes outstanding contributions to technical AI safety research. We're looking for work that advances our understanding, introduces new approaches, or provides significant insights into existing problems. The winning projects will be written clearly and accessibly, and explain how they are advancing technical AI safety.

Best AI governance project: £200
Runner up prize: £50

This prize highlights projects that contribute to advancing solutions for AI governance challenges. The winning project will have made significant progress advancing a particular AI governance intervention: for example by doing novel research in the real world, building the technical tools to enable an intervention, or planning precisely how to implement a certain solution (or better yet, figuring out the plan and then making this happen).

Best AI education, outreach or community building project: £100
Runner up prize: £50

We strongly believe in the importance of education and community building to developing the AI safety field - otherwise we wouldn’t be running this course! The winning project will demonstrate a commitment to building a stronger and more effective AI safety ecosystem.

Best interactive deliverable: £100
Runner up prize: £50

This prize recognises the importance of communicating your work, rewarding creating an engaging and interactive deliverable, such as a visualisation, game, simulation, website, or other tool that allow users to explore your project results. The winning project will effectively communicate an important idea from your project in an interesting and accessible manner.

 

The guidelines above describe of how we currently intend to judge the projects, but the exact criteria may change. All prizes will be awarded at the discretion of the BlueDot Impact team.