AICRAFT: DARPA-Funded AI Alignment Researchers — Applications Open — LessWrong

AICRAFT: DARPA-Funded AI Alignment Researchers — Applications Open TL;DR: We hypothesize that most alignment researchers have more ideas than they ha…

x AICRAFT: DARPA-Funded AI Alignment Researchers — Applications Open — LessWrong Community AI Personal Blog 67 AICRAFT: DARPA-Funded AI Alignment Researchers — Applications Open by Mike Vaiana , Diogo de Lucena , Kvee 16th Mar 2026 4 min read 8 67 AICRAFT: DARPA-Funded AI Alignment Researchers — Applications Open TL;DR: We hypothesize that most alignment researchers have more ideas than they have engineering bandwidth to test. AICRAFT is a DARPA-funded project that pairs researchers with a fully managed professional engineering team for two-week pilot sprints, designed specifically for high-ri

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