We are a community at Boston University dedicated to ensuring advanced AI benefits everyone.

AISA (/ˈaɪ.sə/) supports people working on perhaps the defining problem of our time, from international policy and compute governance to adversarial robustness and model interpretability.

We help talented students understand AI risk and accelerate careers addressing it in technical research, policymaking, and fieldbuilding.

Fellowship tracks

Technical AI Safety Fellowship

A reading group on interpreting, evaluating and aligning advanced AI systems, from RLHF and reward misspecification to mechanistic interpretability, control and chain-of-thought faithfulness.

8 weeks

AI Policy & Governance Fellowship

A reading group on how frontier AI is governed, from compute governance and export controls to company safety frameworks, AI safety institutes, international agreements and state legislation.

8 weeks

Biosecurity Fellowship

An introductory reading group on how advanced AI changes biological risk: evaluations and safeguards, AI and pathogen design, and pandemic preparedness.

AI Safety & Policy LabWork directly with state legislators.

Interdisciplinary student teams collaborate with state legislators, translating AI safety research into clear, evidence-based policy infrastructure.

An under-discussed problem

Artificial intelligence has made extraordinary progress in the last decade and is unlikely to slow down.

Improving AI capabilities often overshadows safety efforts, with safety research receiving only a small fraction of overall resources, leaving the risks of advanced AI inadequately addressed.

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