AI Safety Training · Week 43, 2026
This is a weekly newsletter that lists newly announced training programs addressing existential risk from AI. Visit AISafety.com/training for the full directory of upcoming programs.
New training programs
• London AI Safety Research (LASR) Labs: Summer 2027
Fellowship · London, UK · 3 months · Starts in June 2027
Stipend included · Full-time · Entry bar: high · Focus: technical · Applications not yet open
Technical AI safety research program. Teams of three to four, supervised by an experienced researcher, take a project from proposal to publication.
• Beijing AI Safety Residency: Spring 2027
Fellowship · Beijing, China · 3 months · Starts in April 2027
Stipend included · Full-time · Entry bar: high · Focus: technical, governance · Apply by 6 Nov 2026
Program at Tsinghua University's Beijing AI Safety Hub (BASH) for researchers working on alignment, evaluations, scalable oversight, or control. Residents bring their own agenda and work with counterparts in China.
• CAMBRIA: January 2027
Bootcamp · Cambridge, USA · 3 weeks · Starts 4 Jan 2027
Expenses covered · Full-time · Entry bar: mid · Focus: technical · Apply by 1 Nov 2026
Program by the Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative (CBAI) building technical skills for AI safety research. Based on the ARENA curriculum, covering transformers, interpretability, evals, and alignment science.
• Mercial Research Fellowship: November 2026
Fellowship · Online · 1 month · Starts 1 Nov 2026
No stipend · Part-time · Entry bar: mid · Focus: technical, governance · Apply by 28 Oct 2026
Program by the Mercial AI Safety Initiative where fellows work on an open AI safety problem with a facilitator – ending in a blog write-up. Streams range from AI agent collusion to compute governance.
• AI Futures Lab
Immersive workshop · Berlin, Germany · 2 days · Starts 11 Nov 2026
Expenses covered · Full-time · Entry bar: mid · Focus: general · Apply by 26 Oct 2026
Small-group mastermind by CURRENT for mid-career women from any field who want to move into AI safety. Includes an overview of the AI safety ecosystem, pathway working sessions with a mentor, and a public panel.
• AI Safety Essentials Fellowship
Fellowship · Online · 7 weeks · Starts 10 Jan 2027
No stipend · Part-time · Entry bar: mid · Focus: general · Apply by 8 Nov 2026
Program by Global AI Youth Network SSA (GAIN SSA) for African researchers, engineers, and students mapping AI safety work and career pathways. Includes pre-reading, live group calls, and a portfolio project proposal.
• AI Security Bootcamp (AISB): San Francisco 2027
Bootcamp · San Francisco, USA · 7 days · Starts 10 Jan 2027
Expenses covered · Full-time · Entry bar: mid · Focus: technical · Apply by 7 Nov 2026
For security professionals looking to secure frontier AI systems. Covers threat modeling, LLM and infrastructure security, weight security, and AI control through demos, lectures, and hands-on red/blue team exercises.