TLDR: the AI safety initiative at Georgia Tech recently hosted an AI safety focused track at the college's flagship AI hackathon. In this post I share how it went and some of our thoughts.

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Hey! I’m Yixiong, co-director of Georgia Tech's AI safety student group. We recently hosted an AI safety focused track at Georgia Tech's biggest AI hackathon, AI ATL. I’m writing this retrospective because I think this could be a useful data point to update on for fellow AIS groups thinking about hosting similar things!

The track was focused on evaluations on safety-critical and interesting capabilities, this is the track page that was shown to hackers (feel free to reuse/borrow content, just let us know!)

Huge thank you (in no particular order) to Michael Chen, Long Phan, Andrey Anurin, Abdur Raheem, Esben Kran, Zac Hatfield-Dodds, Aaron Begg, Alex Albert, Oliver Zhang, and others who helped us [...]

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(00:05) TLDR: the AI safety initiative at Georgia Tech recently hosted an AI safety focused track at the colleges flagship AI hackathon. In this post I share how it went and some of our thoughts.

(00:21) Overview

(01:30) Quick stats:

(03:24) Relevant track details:

(04:46) Execution

(06:42) Our opinion/takes

(09:23) What's next?

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