A one-day hackathon and conference at the University of Rochester — connecting students, researchers, and builders across Central and Western New York.
CNY AI Safety begins where the first organizer, venue, and launch event are. The goal is bigger: a lightweight network connecting campuses and cities across Central and Western New York around concrete AI safety work.
A durable local group forms from the first event — the anchor of the network.
Reading groups, project nights, and campus hubs in Syracuse, Buffalo, and Ithaca.
A recurring regional hackathon that moves across institutions year to year.
The institutional, political, and social side of advanced-AI risk — and how society can reduce catastrophic outcomes.
Concrete, safety-relevant building — tools and experiments for understanding and constraining model behavior.
Students are excited about AI — but few local events connect that energy to reducing risk from increasingly capable systems. CNY AI Safety is a concrete on-ramp into the field, before commercial incentives shape every project.
Identify students and builders who could go deep on safety.
Turn a day of work into demos, evals, and proposals worth continuing.
Leave behind a community that keeps meeting after the event.
Students, researchers, and builders in AI, CS, policy, philosophy, and the sciences — at any level of experience with safety.
…plus BlueDot community members across Central and Western New York.
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