AI Safety Events · Week 43, 2026
This is a weekly newsletter that lists newly announced events addressing existential risk from AI. Visit AISafety.com/events for the full directory of upcoming events.
New events
• Frontier AI Safety Incidents: Technical Implications and Open Questions
Talk · Vancouver, Canada · 23 Oct 2026
By Vancouver AI Safety Hub (VASH), UBC AI Safety · Free · Apply by 23 Oct 2026
Briefing separating what happened in recent incidents from what could have happened, highlighting risk factors such as safeguards removed during evaluation. Includes a panel, small-group discussions, and networking.
• Let's talk about Power Concentration!
Workshop · San Francisco, USA · 11 Nov 2026
By AI Safety San Francisco · Free · Register by 11 Nov 2026
Examines how advanced AI could let a few companies, governments, or individuals gain unprecedented control. Maps the steps, gauges the odds, weighs safeguards against remaining gaps, and breaks into small-group debates.
• AI Situations BlueDot Townhall
Other · Houston, USA · 25 Oct 2026
By BlueDot Impact · Free · Register by 25 Oct 2026
Open discussion on advanced AI, existential risk, and where skeptics disagree. Covers what new capabilities mean for swarm behavior and cyberrisk, biosecurity and weapons development, and academia and knowledge work.
• Swarm Alignment Hackathon
Hackathon · Online & Los Angeles, USA · 6 – 8 Nov 2026
By Apart Research, AI Alignment Foundation (AIAF) · Free (cash prize available) · Register by 6 Nov 2026
Teams build experiments and tools to investigate how behavior spreads through an AI swarm and what makes agents cooperate instead of compete. For security engineers, economists, network scientists, and ML researchers.
• Lexsi – AI Safety and Alignment Hackathon
Hackathon · Online · 1 – 22 Nov 2026
By Lexsi Labs · Free (cash prize available) · Register by 5 Nov 2026
Teams use open-source toolkits on open-weight models. One track targets catastrophic misuse, covering safeguards that survive harmful fine-tuning, unlearning of hazardous knowledge, and refusal circuits.
• AI Safety Careers Panel
Talk · Austin, USA · 1 Dec 2026
By Austin AI Alignment · Free · Register by 1 Dec 2026
Covers the many specialties within AI safety and how to contribute, with panelists from RAND, the Midas Project, and EquiStamp. Followed by networking.