Archive - BlueDot Impact

The software engineer’s guide to making your first AI safety contribution in <1 week

You’re an experienced software engineer who’s ready to start contributing to making AI go well.

Dec 5 •

Kris Bar – From Quantum Computing to Building London's AI Safety Hub

Kris is the CEO of the London Initiative for Safe AI

Dec 3 •

Running versions of our courses

To take part in our facilitated courses instead, see the courses linked on our homepage.

Dec 3 •

November 2025

Navigating dual-use projects in biosecurity

Advice for the BlueDot biosecurity course and hackathons

Nov 28 •

I'm an experienced software engineer. How can I contribute to AI safety?

AI safety needs excellent software engineers.

Nov 27 •

Rapid Small Grants for Course Participants

After completing the learning phase of our courses, many participants work on independent projects of their choosing.

Nov 25 •

How to avoid the 3 mistakes behind most rejected Technical AI Safety applicants

I’ve reviewed ~1,000 applications for our Technical AI Safety course.

Nov 11 •

Our experiments to support founders to protect humanity

Nov 3 •

Announcing Incubator Week v2

Last month, we ran our AGI Strategy Course turned Incubator. Seven participants spent five days in our London office. From this batch we backed Exona …

Nov 3 •

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Aniket Chakravorty

October 2025

AI Alignment June 2024 course retrospective

This is a review of our June 2024 AI Alignment course, which ran from June to October 2024.

Oct 30 •

Gradual Disempowerment Summary

Intro You find yourself in 2040.

Oct 17 •

Aniket Chakravorty

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How AI could enable catastrophic pandemics

This post was updated to include the release of Claude 4.5 Opus in Nov 2025.

Oct 16 •

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