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Thursday, July 16

Foreverhaven writing group

private

7 PM - 10 PM, hosted by Claire Wang

Private event; invite only.

7 PM - 8 PM, hosted by Tazik Shahjahan

This is for you if: - You have a backlog of Anki cards

Friday, July 17

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM, hosted by Mox

A weekly dinner for Mox members and plus ones. Come meet your fellow members and chill out :)

7 PM - 8:30 PM, hosted by Mox

​Why do some difficult intellectual problems suddenly melt away when we find an "intuitive" way to think about them (and others don't)? What does it mean for a mental representation to be better or worse? Join us for a talk with Ethan Kuntz on the phenomenological underpinnings of intuition and novel approaches to building better mental scaffolding.

7:30 PM - 8:30 PM, hosted by Justin Jung, Henry Weng

we are back! with a twist and new improv games! on FL 3, 7:30. usually an hour or so

Saturday, July 18

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM, hosted by Robin Goins

​AI 2040: Plan A is a detailed positive scenario for how humanity might avoid a dangerous race to superintelligence and reach a flourishing future. It proposes buying time, making AI research transparent, distributing frontier capabilities across multiple countries and companies, and preserving reversibility through enforceable compute governance. ​Join Thomas Larsen, co-author of AI 2027 and lead author of AI 2040, for a presentation and discussion of Plan A: why the team frames it as a recommendation rather than a prediction, how the proposal would slow the race to superintelligence until 2040, and where its assumptions, tradeoffs, and implementation challenges deserve scrutiny.

9:30 AM - 8 PM, hosted by Jennifer Baik

Interested in AI Safety, but feel like everyone is ahead of you? Did some reading or just finished a BlueDot course, but don’t feel like you know enough to post publicly? Worried that the field moves faster than you can keep up? Feeling stuck or overwhelmed, or worried by a lack of technical skills?If the traditional field on-ramps don’t serve you right, this one is for you! Join us for a low-pressure, non-technical hackathon to get things done.

Tuesday, July 21

7 PM - 8:30 PM, hosted by Radoslav Kirov

The SF Lean meetup: Weekly presentation and discussion about Lean, the programming language and theorem prover. Math, CS, AI and their mix all welcome. Beginners welcome! Join the discord - https://discord.com/invite/bXNPhQyjfe for more info.

7 PM - 9:30 PM, hosted by James Burrell, Luke Atkins

Reading and discussing classic machine learning papers as well as contemporary research!

Wednesday, July 22

6:30 PM - 8 PM, hosted by Finn Metz

Meet your next co-founder in AI safety, security, and policy!! Open to anyone building impactful orgs in the space: startups, non-profits, and research orgs alike.

Thursday, July 23

Foreverhaven writing group

private

7 PM - 10 PM, hosted by Claire Wang

Private event; invite only.

7 PM - 8:30 PM, hosted by Robin Goins

Epoch AI to present on their MirrorCode benchmark: https://epoch.ai/MirrorCode

Friday, July 24

7 PM - 8:30 PM, hosted by Robin Goins

Keenan Pepper will be giving a talk on LLM introspection. More on the research here: https://ae.studio/research/selfie

10:30 AM - 5 PM, hosted by Jennifer Baik

A high-context Career Fair for people who are ready to move in AI safety: into roles, into founding, into deploying capital. Who's this for?

Wednesday, July 29

Safety as the Path of Least Resistance: A New Shape for AI Systems

public

7 PM - 8:30 PM, hosted by Quentin Feuillade--Montixi

After three years of red-teaming frontier models for Anthropic, OpenAI, and METR, I came away convinced that making the model itself safe is the wrong layer to bet on. Redlines get bypassed, and training hard for them flattens the model into one rigid persona. The leverage is in the system around the model. I'll walk through Weft, a programming language for orchestrating AI systems, and the bet behind it: that you can break a task into scoped steps run by humans, tools, and narrow models, hold the volition at the system level instead of in one open-ended agent, and end up with something safer that's also cheaper and faster to build. I'll show where this already works, where it breaks, and why I think it makes both regulation and safe deployment actually tractable.

Wednesday, August 5

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM, hosted by Robin Goins

Details coming soon.

Friday, August 7

Matt Krisiloff | Conception

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM, hosted by Robin Goins

Details coming soon.

Saturday, August 8

1 PM - 3 PM, hosted by Robin Goins, TIAT

​HTML Day is an annual celebration of HTML. It's a day to gather IRL in places around the world to write and learn HTML. Hosted by TIAT in Robin Williams Meadow, in Golden Gate Park! We'll touch grass, write html.

Wednesday, August 12

7 PM - 8:30 PM, hosted by Robin Goins

Linda Linsefors, co-author of Goodfire's Interpreting Language Model Parameters paper, will be giving a talk on AdVersarial Parameter Decomposition (VPD).

Friday, August 14

7 PM - 8:30 PM, hosted by Robin Goins

Details coming soon.

Saturday, August 15

7 PM - 9 PM, hosted by Jennifer Baik

Run time: 1 hr 37 min We’re diving into Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express, a 90s cinematic masterpiece of urban yearning and kinetic romance. It’s a gorgeous, fast-paced fever dream about the beautiful, melancholic chaos of finding love in a crowded city.

8 PM - 11:59 PM, hosted by Robin Goins, Carolina Oliveira

A party with secrets. (More details soon!)

Friday, October 9

Arbor Trading Bootcamp - Fall '26 - Day 1

private

10 AM - 7 PM, hosted by Brian Smiley, Ricki Heicklen

Saturday, October 10

Arbor Trading Bootcamp - Fall '26 - Day 1

private

10 AM - 7 PM, hosted by Arbor Trading Bootcamp

Sunday, October 11

Arbor Trading Bootcamp - Fall '26 - Day 3

private

10 AM - 7 PM, hosted by Arbor Trading Bootcamp