Incubator Week
5 days in San Francisco. All expenses paid. Up to $100k in funding if we back your pitch.
Cohort
v6
Runs
November 2–6
Funding
Up to $100k in grants
Covered
All expenses paid
Track record
Past cohorts: 50 participants, $10M+ in external funding raised.
Alumni are building organisations focused on:
- Evaluating power-seeking and shutdown resistance in frontier AI
- Scalable oversight of advanced AI systems
- Detecting safety failures when AI agents interact
- Defending advanced AI systems against training-data poisoning
- Tracking undeclared AI compute to support treaty verification
And more.
Plus career transition grants and placements at AI safety organisations.
The week
- Monday
Threat models
Develop threat models and identify the top experts in your problem space.
- Tue – Wed
Build interventions
Build and test interventions, call experts, and pressure-test your assumptions with the cohort.
- Thursday
Pitch prep
Sharpen the story and create your pitch.
- Friday
Pitch for funding
Pitch to us. If we back your pitch, we will fund your immediate needs on the spot and—if you make good progress—give you up to $100k in grant funding within two weeks.
About you
- Technically serious
- Working in or adjacent to AI safety, biosecurity, cyber, or other catastrophic-risk fields
- Ready to leave whatever you're doing now to build
- You don't need a polished idea - we will help you find one here
Know someone who should be there? Refer them here, and we'll send you $2,000 for each person accepted after your referral.
About BlueDot
BlueDot Impact is a nonprofit building the workforce and organisations needed to safely navigate AGI. We've raised $71M and trained over 10,000 people since 2022.
For questions, reach out to joshua@bluedot.org.