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Summary This post describes how we organized the Finnish Alignment Engineering Bootcamp, a 6-week technical AI safety bootcamp for 12 people. The boo…
x Lessons from organizing a technical AI safety bootcamp — LessWrong AI Frontpage 18 Lessons from organizing a technical AI safety bootcamp by Vili Kohonen , Dmitrii Gusev 28th Sep 2025 19 min read 3 18 Summary This post describes how we organized the Finnish Alignment Engineering Bootcamp, a 6-week technical AI safety bootcamp for 12 people. The bootcamp was created jointly with the Finnish Center for Safe AI (Tutke) and Effective Altruism (EA) Finland . It was composed of five weeks of remote learning based on the ARENA curriculum and a one-week on-site research sprint. We provide extensive
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