Navigators Incubator — Cohort 1: Securing Transformative AI
Runs a selective AI security fellowship for small teams tackling critical risk problems.
The Navigators Incubator, run by Coefficient Giving under the Navigating Transformative AI Fund, is a selective fellowship program for individuals and small teams working on AI security. Cohort 1 focuses specifically on Securing Transformative AI, drawing from Coefficient Giving's AI Infrastructure Security Shortlist of priority problems. The six target problem areas are: securing AI models from e…
AI security: exfiltration of model weights; AI integrity/tampering; disconnected model safety; secure compute verification; protocols for compromised AI (AI control); detecting and responding to rogue deployments.
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